NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared a Mobile platform GPU: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and a Desktop platform GPU: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1777MHz vs 1531MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1060%

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 30

Mobile

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

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

56.86 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GA106

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

130W

-

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

6.6

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