NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

1886% significantly better overall score

343 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS

159 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

112 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

7848% significantly higher Blender score

37.75 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

128321 points

1755% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6914 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

120183 points

1581% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7146 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

95490 points

1241% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7117 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

1546% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6822 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

1723% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6359 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

1519 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1531 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

832% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

10 W

1900% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

443% significantly higher pixel rate

24.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

933% significantly higher texture rate

24.5 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

1800% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

850% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

400% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

361st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce MX230 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti beats the GeForce MX230 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX230 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce MX230 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti over the GeForce MX230.