GeForce MX230 vs GeForce GTX 950M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M 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 36% (1531MHz vs 1124MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)
GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
784
GeForce GTX 950M
+83%
1439
OctaneBench
GeForce MX230
13
GeForce GTX 950M
+107%
27
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Mar 2015
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
993 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1124 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
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
17.98 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.96 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1439 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
44.96 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
N16P-GT
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
