NVIDIA started GeForce MX230 sales 20 February 2019. This is a Pascal architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 7 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 48.06 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 10 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 4.75% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce MX230: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	607
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	1.63
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	N17S-G0
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	20 February 2019 (5 years old)
Current price	$1221	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce MX230's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce MX230's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	256	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1519 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1531 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	1,800 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	25.31	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce MX230's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce MX230: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	48.06 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce MX230. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce MX230. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus

API support

APIs supported by GeForce MX230, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce MX230. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce MX230 4.75

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GeForce MX230 1838

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GeForce MX230 3364

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GeForce MX230 2468

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GeForce MX230 15797

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

GeForce MX230 6691

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

GeForce MX230 183041

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

GeForce MX230 7113

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GeForce MX230 6604

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce MX230 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

8−9

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	13
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5
Battlefield 5	20
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	16−18
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9
Far Cry 5	15
Far Cry New Dawn	15
Forza Horizon 4	21
Hitman 3	10−11
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10
Red Dead Redemption 2	9−10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10
Watch Dogs: Legion	6−7

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5
Battlefield 5	16
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	16−18
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9
Far Cry 5	13
Far Cry New Dawn	13
Forza Horizon 4	16
Hitman 3	10−11
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10
Metro Exodus	4
Red Dead Redemption 2	9−10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	9
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	15
Watch Dogs: Legion	6−7

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	4−5
Battlefield 5	12
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9
Far Cry 5	12
Far Cry New Dawn	12
Forza Horizon 4	12
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	9
Watch Dogs: Legion	6−7

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8
Hitman 3	8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12
Metro Exodus	3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	7−8
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1
Far Cry 5	5−6
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8
Forza Horizon 4	3−4
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce MX230 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

GeForce GTX 570M 101.26

GeForce MX130 100.84

Iris Pro Graphics 580 100

GeForce MX230 100

UHD Graphics Xe 32EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 98.95

Radeon RX Vega 5 97.89

Iris Plus Graphics 650 95.58

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce MX230 is Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, which is faster by 2% and higher by 8 positions in our ranking.