GeForce MX230 vs GeForce 840A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 840A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX230 Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1531MHz vs 1124MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)
Lower TDP (10W vs 33W)
GeForce 840A Advantages
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
784
GeForce 840A
+10%
863
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 800A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
1029 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1124 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
16.02GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.992 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.98 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
863.2 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
26.98 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
33W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GM108
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Maxwell
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
Unknown
74 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
5.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
