NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (10W vs 14W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 305M
0.037 TFLOPS
GeForce MX230
+2018%
0.784 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2010
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce 300M
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1519 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
11.20GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
2
16
Shading Units
256
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.50 GPixel/s
4.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.50 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.25 GFLOPS
36.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
783.9 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
24.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
10W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
GP108
N11M-LP1
GPU Variant
N17S-G0-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
4.1
Shader Model
6.4
