NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX230 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX230

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1519 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • 3x more pipelines: 384 vs 128
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
  • 7.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1839 vs 636
  • Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 217 vs 128
  • Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 2172
  • Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 2172
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 February 2019 vs 1 February 2010
Core clock speed 1519 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Pipelines 384 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1839 vs 636
PassMark - G2D Mark 217 vs 128
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 vs 2172
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 vs 2172

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX230
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1839
636
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
217
128
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
2172
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
2172
Name NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1839 636
PassMark - G2D Mark 217 128
Geekbench - OpenCL 6691
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 21.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 445.82
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 32.43
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 102.234
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2680
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 2172
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2680
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 2172

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Tesla
Code name GP108 G92
Launch date 21 February 2019 1 February 2010
Place in performance rating 1005 1294
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1582 MHz
Core clock speed 1519 MHz 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 384 128
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 1,800 million 754 million
CUDA cores 128
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops
Gigaflops 576
Texture fill rate 38 billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs Single Link DVIVGALVDSHDMIDual Link DVIDisplayPort
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size large
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 61 GB / s
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0