GeForce MX230 vs RTX A2000 Max Q 8 GB
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM RTX A2000 Max Q 8 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 30% (1531MHz vs 1177MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 95W)
RTX A2000 Max Q 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
784
RTX A2000 Max Q 8 GB
+668%
6026
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce MX
Generation
Ampere-MW
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
607 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1177 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
20
256
Shading Units
2560
16
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.50 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
94.16 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.026 TFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.026 TFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
94.16 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
95W
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
6.8
