NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M, 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

343 points

2% slightly better overall score

334 points

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

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

5 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.75 points

45.23 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

6914 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5629 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7146 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5938 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7117 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5207 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6822 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6089 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6359 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5261 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1519 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

1029 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1531 MHz

36% slightly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

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

48.06 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

16.02 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

10 W

230% significantly lower TDP

33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

24.5 Gigapixels/s

172% significantly higher pixel rate

8.99 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.5 Gigatexels/s

36% slightly higher texture rate

17.98 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

256

384

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

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

369th of 597

373rd of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce MX230 vs GeForce 840M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce MX230 graphics card is better than the GeForce 840M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce MX230 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce MX230 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX230 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce 840M at 33 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce MX230 is better than the GeForce 840M.