NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1545MHz vs 1531MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
4864 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (10W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+1917%
15.82 TFLOPS
GeForce MX230
0.784 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Feb 2019
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1110 MHz
Base Clock
1519 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
2
5120
Shading Units
256
160
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
16
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
98.88 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.50 GPixel/s
247.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.50 GTexel/s
15.82 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.25 GFLOPS
15.82 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
783.9 GFLOPS
247.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
10W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GP108
-
GPU Variant
N17S-G0-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
14 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
294 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
8.9
CUDA
6.1
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
