NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 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 55% (1531MHz vs 990MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh +417%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

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GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jul 2022

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

622 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

990 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

96bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

16

256

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.68 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.36 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.055 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.055 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

75W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GA107

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 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

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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