NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon HD 6730M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
Lower TDP (10W vs 35W)
AMD Radeon HD 6730M 's Advantages
224 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
+12%
0.784 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6730M
0.696 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce MX
Generation
Vancouver
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
-
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
480
16
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.800 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.40 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
696.0 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
10W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Whistler
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
Whistler LE
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.716 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
104 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
