NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, 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

5% slightly better overall score

325 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 significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

5 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.75 points

48.42 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

6914 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5882 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7146 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6193 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7117 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5469 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6822 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6264 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6359 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5609 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1519 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1531 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

1098 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

233% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

10 W

650% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

24.5 Gigapixels/s

39% slightly higher pixel rate

17.57 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.5 Gigatexels/s

35.14 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

256

512

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

361st of 586

367th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2015 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 940M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce MX230 GPU is faster than the GeForce 940M in gaming.

In our comparison, 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 940M at 75 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 940M.