NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon R9 M385
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1531MHz vs 1000MHz)
AMD Radeon R9 M385 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
0.784 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M385
+128%
1.792 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
May 2015
GeForce MX
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
896
16
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
56.00 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.792 TFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
112.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Strato
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
Strato XT
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.5
