GeForce MX230 vs Arc A730M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1531MHz vs 1100MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 80W)
Arc A730M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
784
Arc A730M
+761%
6758
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce MX
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
300 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1100 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
3072
16
TMUs
192
16
ROPs
96
-
RT Cores
24
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
12 MB
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
105.6 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
211.2 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
13.52 TFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.758 TFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
10W
TDP
80W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
DG2-512
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Pascal
Architecture
Generation 12.7
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
6 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
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
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
