NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q 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 24% (1531MHz vs 1230MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 35W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
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
0.784 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q
+1346%
11.34 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Jan 2023
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
735 MHz
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
1230 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
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
177.1 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
11.34 TFLOPS
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.34 TFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
177.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
10W
TDP
35W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
AD106
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
GN21-X6
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
6.8
