NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB 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 3% (1531MHz vs 1492MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB +874%

7.639 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

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GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 6 GB

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

1237 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1492 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

96bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

168.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

47.74 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

119.4 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.639 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.639 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

119.4 GFLOPS

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

8.7 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

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