NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1531MHz vs 1085MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
0.784 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 860M OEM
+77%
1.389 TFLOPS
OctaneBench
GeForce MX230
13
GeForce GTX 860M OEM
+153%
33
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Feb 2015
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 800M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
1020 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1085 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/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
17.36 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.40 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1389 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
43.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GM107
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
N15P-GX-A1
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
