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
8% slightly better overall score
315 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS
Identical
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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.75 points
45.23 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

6914 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
5629 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7146 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5938 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7117 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
5207 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6822 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6089 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

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

16
Identical
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

362nd of 586
370th of 586

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
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce MX230 vs GeForce 840M benchmarks

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

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce MX230 over the GeForce 840M.

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