Radeon RX 540 Mobile vs GeForce MX230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540 Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 540 Mobile Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
GeForce MX230 Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1531MHz vs 1219MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 540 Mobile
+59%
1248
GeForce MX230
784
Graphics Card
Nov 2017
Release Date
Feb 2019
Mobility Radeon
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1124 MHz
Base Clock
1519 MHz
1219 MHz
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
512
Shading Units
256
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
19.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.50 GPixel/s
39.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.50 GTexel/s
1248 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.25 GFLOPS
1248 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
783.9 GFLOPS
78.02 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
10W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
GP108
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
N17S-G0-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
103 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4