NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1560MHz vs 1531MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile +1936%

15.97 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce MX230

13

GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile +2653%

358

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

40

256

Shading Units

5120

16

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

124.8 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.97 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.97 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

249.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GA104

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-770-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

392 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

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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