NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4050 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 50W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1755MHz vs 1531MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile +1046%

8.986 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce MX230

13

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile +1853%

254

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

1455 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

96bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.24 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

140.4 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.986 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.986 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

140.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

AD107

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

GN21-X2

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

159 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

50W

-

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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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