GeForce MX230 vs GeForce 940M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1531MHz vs 1098MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)
GeForce 940M 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
784
GeForce 940M
+43%
1124
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Mar 2015
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
1020 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1098 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.57 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
35.14 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1124 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
35.14 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GM107
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
N16S-GT1-KB-B
Pascal
Architecture
Maxwell
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
5.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
