NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 2060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1531MHz vs 1185MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +480%

4.55 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q +1023%

146

GeForce MX230

13

GeForce RTX 2060 Max Q

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GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Jan 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

975 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1185 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

256

120

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

9.101 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

4.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GP108

N18E-G1

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

Board Design

65W

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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