NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (10W vs 70W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +111%

0.784 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.371 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce MX

Generation

M8x

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

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

256

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.280 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

371.2 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

M88

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

70W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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