NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon 540X Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 540X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1531MHz vs 1095MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
Lower TDP (10W vs 50W)
AMD Radeon 540X Mobile 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
0.784 TFLOPS
Radeon 540X Mobile
+42%
1.121 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce MX
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
980 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1095 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.52 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
35.04 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1121 GFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1121 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
70.08 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Lexa
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
