GeForce MX230 vs GeForce GTX 560M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX230 Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)
GeForce GTX 560M Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.00GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
+31%
784
GeForce GTX 560M
595
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
May 2011
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
-
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
625 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
60.00GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
4
256
Shading Units
192
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
24
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.200 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.80 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
595.2 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
49.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GF116
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
N12E-GS-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
