NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940M NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA 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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940M +43%

1.124 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1098 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

256

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

35.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

1124 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

35.14 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GP108

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R5 M430 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

2

AMD Radeon 610M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

3

NVIDIA GeForce MX150 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

4

NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX550

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

6

NVIDIA GeForce MX570 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

7

NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Embedded

8

NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

9

NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce 800M

10

NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce 910M