GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
CORE STATE
GK104
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
967 MHz
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce MX230
CORE STATE
GP108
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1531 MHz
TDP
10 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 870M
MX230
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,344
256
-81.0%
Shaders
1,344
256
-81.0%
TMUs
112
16
-85.7%
ROPs
24
16
-33.3%
SM Count
—
2
Clocks
Base Clock
941 MHz
1519 MHz
Boost Clock
967 MHz
1531 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
1502 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
2,048
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192 bit
64 bit
Bandwidth
120.0 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
384 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
27.08 GPixel/s
24.50 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.3 GTexel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.599 TFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
108.3 GFLOPS (1:24)
24.50 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
12.25 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
100 W
10 W
TDP (W)
100
10
-90.0%
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
Kepler
Pascal
GPU Name
GK104
GP108
Generation
GeForce 800M
GeForce MX
(2xx)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
3,540 million
1,800 million
Die Size
294 mm²
74 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
12.0M / mm²
24.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.175
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
3.0
6.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
IGP
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x4
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700M
—
Successor
GeForce 900M
—