NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Compare NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

306 points

343 points

12% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

8 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

6 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.68 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

37.75 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

6363 points

6914 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6582 points

7146 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5823 points

7117 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6410 points

6822 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5702 points

6359 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1004 MHz

1519 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1242 MHz

1531 MHz

23% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

16.02 GB/s

48.06 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

23 W

10 W

129% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

9.94 Gigapixels/s

24.5 Gigapixels/s

146% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

29.81 Gigatexels/s

21% slightly higher texture rate

24.5 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

49% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

375th of 586

361st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce 940MX vs GeForce MX230 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce MX230 beats the GeForce 940MX in gaming performance.

The GeForce MX230 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce MX230 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce MX230 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce 940MX at 23 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce MX230 is faster than the GeForce 940MX.