NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs Intel Arc A550M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM Arc A550M 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 70% (1531MHz vs 900MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 60W)
Intel Arc A550M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
0.784 TFLOPS
Arc A550M
+370%
3.686 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce MX
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
900 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
2048
16
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
115.2 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
7.373 TFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.686 TFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
10W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
DG2-512
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Pascal
Architecture
Generation 12.7
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
6 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
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
