NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

343 points

14473 points

4119% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

8 FPS

355 FPS

347 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

182 FPS

177 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

253 FPS

247 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

145 FPS

141 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.75 points

7059.26 points

18598% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6822 points

181715 points

2563% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6359 points

172409 points

2611% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1519 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

1335 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1531 MHz

1695 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

576 GB/s

1098% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

10 W

1100% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

24.5 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

674% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.5 Gigatexels/s

515.3 Gigatexels/s

2003% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

256

9728

3699% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

304

1800% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

599% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

361st of 586

19th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce MX230 vs GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce MX230 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce MX230 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce MX230 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop is better than the GeForce MX230.