NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 820M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
160 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (10W vs 15W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
+163%
0.784 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 820M
0.298 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 800M
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
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
2
256
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.100 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.40 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
297.6 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
15W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GF117
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
N15V-GM
Pascal
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
