NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

5276 points

1438% significantly better overall score

343 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

118 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

6037% significantly higher Blender score

37.75 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points

1334% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6914 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

1249% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7146 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

951% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7117 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

1212% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6822 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

1255% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6359 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1519 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

1531 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

649% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

10 W

1599% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

248% significantly higher pixel rate

24.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

712% significantly higher texture rate

24.5 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

1300% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

599% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

362nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 vs GeForce MX230 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the GeForce MX230 in gaming.

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 3060 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 3060 at 170 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3060 is faster than the GeForce MX230.