NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 Max Q and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1531MHz vs 1207MHz)
Lower TDP (10W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A2000 Max Q
+688%
6.18 TFLOPS
GeForce MX230
0.784 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Feb 2019
Ampere-MW
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
682 MHz
Base Clock
1519 MHz
1207 MHz
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
20
SM Count
2
2560
Shading Units
256
80
TMUs
16
48
ROPs
16
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
57.94 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.50 GPixel/s
96.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.50 GTexel/s
6.180 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.25 GFLOPS
6.180 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
783.9 GFLOPS
96.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
10W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GP108
-
GPU Variant
N17S-G0-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Pascal
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
8 nm
Process Size
14 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
200 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
8.6
CUDA
6.1
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
