GeForce MX230 vs GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB 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 55% (1531MHz vs 990MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 35W)
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
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
784
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 6 GB
+417%
4055
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Jul 2022
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
622 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
990 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
96bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
16
256
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.68 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
63.36 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.055 TFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.055 TFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
63.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
35W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GA107
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
200 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
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
