NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

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

Lower TDP (10W vs 60W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +1155%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

3840

16

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GA106

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

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

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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