NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1531MHz vs 1125MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 115W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh
+561%
5.184 TFLOPS
GeForce MX230
0.784 TFLOPS
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q Refresh
+1330%
186
GeForce MX230
13
Graphics Card
Mar 2020
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce 20 Mobile
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
1519 MHz
1125 MHz
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
352.0GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
36
SM Count
2
2304
Shading Units
256
144
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
16
288
Tensor Cores
-
36
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
72.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.50 GPixel/s
162.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.50 GTexel/s
10.37 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.25 GFLOPS
5.184 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
783.9 GFLOPS
162.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
10W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU106B
GPU Name
GP108
-
GPU Variant
N17S-G0-A1
Turing
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
14 nm
10.8 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
445 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
6.1
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
