GeForce MX230 vs GeForce GTX 850A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 64% (1531MHz vs 936MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
Lower TDP (10W vs 45W)
GeForce GTX 850A 's Advantages
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
784
GeForce GTX 850A
+52%
1198
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 800A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
902 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
936 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
640
16
TMUs
40
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
14.98 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.44 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1198 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
37.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
45W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GM107
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
N15P-GT-A1
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
