NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics 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 25W)

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1650MHz vs 1531MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (68.26GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics +223%

2.534 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce MX

Generation

HD Graphics-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2133 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

68.26GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.60 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.20 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.069 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.534 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

DG1

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Generation 12.1

Samsung

Foundry

Intel

14 nm

Process Size

10 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

74 mm²

Die Size

95 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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