GeForce MX230 vs GeForce GTS 160M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (10W vs 60W)
GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
+308%
784
GeForce GTS 160M
192
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Mar 2009
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 100M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
-
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
8
256
Shading Units
64
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
10W
TDP
60W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
G94
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
N10E-GS1
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
