NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared a Mobile platform GPU: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and a Desktop platform GPU: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1531MHz vs 888MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (10W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM +160%

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 600

Mobile

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

823 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

888 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

1152

16

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GK104

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

130W

-

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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