AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

593 points

72% significantly better overall score

343 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

134% significantly higher Blender score

37.75 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7146 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7117 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6822 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6359 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1519 MHz

406% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

1531 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

10 W

350% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

24.5 Gigapixels/s

53% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

161% significantly higher texture rate

24.5 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

100% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th 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

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce MX230 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon Vega 8 beats the GeForce MX230 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX230 has a significantly 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 Radeon Vega 8 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 Radeon Vega 8 at 45 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon Vega 8 is faster than the GeForce MX230.