GeForce MX230 vs GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX230 Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Lower TDP (10W vs 120W)
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1645MHz vs 1531MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
784
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
+759%
6738
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
1442 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1645 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
2002 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
16
256
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
105.3 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
210.6 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
105.3 GFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.738 TFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
210.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
120W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GP104
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
N17E-G2-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Pascal
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
16 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
