GeForce MX230 vs RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (10W vs 115W)
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1695MHz vs 1531MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
784
RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation
+1892%
15620
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce MX
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
1395 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
36
256
Shading Units
4608
16
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
144
-
RT Cores
36
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
81.36 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
244.1 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
15.62 TFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.62 TFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
244.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
115W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
AD106
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
5 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
22.9 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
188 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
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
