NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 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 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1531MHz vs 1282MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +1155%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

2

3840

Shading Units

256

120

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

GP108

-

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

276 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

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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