NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB 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 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1531MHz vs 1207MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB +688%

6.18 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Refresh 4 GB

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GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Jul 2022

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

652 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1207 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

2

2560

Shading Units

256

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.62 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

96.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

6.180 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

6.180 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

96.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

10W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GP108

-

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

200 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

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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