NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 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 Max-Q Refresh 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1531MHz vs 990MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB +417%

4.055 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 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

622 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

990 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

96bit

Memory Bus

64bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

256

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

64

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

63.36 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

4.055 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

4.055 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

63.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GP108

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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

Board Design

35W

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

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

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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