GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q vs GeForce MX230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
2688 additional rendering cores
GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1531MHz vs 1095MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q
+722%
6447
GeForce MX230
784
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q
+1415%
197
GeForce MX230
13
Graphics Card
Jan 2019
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce 20 Mobile
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
1519 MHz
1095 MHz
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
2
2944
Shading Units
256
184
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
16
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
70.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.50 GPixel/s
201.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.50 GTexel/s
12.89 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.25 GFLOPS
6.447 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
783.9 GFLOPS
201.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
10W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
GP108
N18E-G3-A1
GPU Variant
N17S-G0-A1
Turing
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
14 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
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
7.5
CUDA
6.1
6.6
Shader Model
6.4
