NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 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 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1531MHz vs 940MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 M255 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +8%

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M255

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon R5 M255

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce MX

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

940 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

256

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.520 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.56 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

721.9 GFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

721.9 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

45.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Topaz

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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