GeForce MX230 vs Radeon R9 M270X
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX230 Advantages
Released 4 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1531MHz vs 1000MHz)
Radeon R9 M270X Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
784
Radeon R9 M270X
+95%
1536
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Feb 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
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
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
48.00 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Saturn
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
Saturn PRO
(216-0843044)
(216-0843044)
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