NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs Intel Arc A530M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Intel Arc A530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM Arc A530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1531MHz vs 1300MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 65W)

Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Arc A530M +409%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Arc A530M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce MX

Generation

Alchemist

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1300 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

12

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

10W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

DG2-256

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

ACM-G12

Pascal

Architecture

Generation 12.7

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

74 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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