NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1531MHz vs 1035MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
0.784 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile
+575%
5.299 TFLOPS
OctaneBench
GeForce MX230
13
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile
+1146%
162
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
May 2021
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
735 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1035 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
20
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
33.12 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
82.80 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.299 TFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.299 TFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
82.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GA106
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
12 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
276 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
