NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 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

8113 points

2265% significantly better overall score

343 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

189 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

135 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

8854% significantly higher Blender score

37.75 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

149734 points

2065% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6914 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points

1790% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7146 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points

1304% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7117 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

1779% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6822 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

1803% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6359 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

1519 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

12% 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

220 W

10 W

2099% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

575% significantly higher pixel rate

24.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

1195% significantly higher texture rate

24.5 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

2200% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

1049% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

361st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

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 3070 vs GeForce MX230 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 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. 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 3070 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 3070 at 220 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 is better than the GeForce MX230.