NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon R5 M240
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 M240 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 and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1531MHz vs 1030MHz)
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
AMD Radeon R5 M240 's Advantages
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
+18%
0.784 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 M240
0.659 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce MX
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1030 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
320
16
TMUs
20
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.240 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.60 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
659.2 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
41.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Jet
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
Jet XT
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.69 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
56 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
