AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce MX230 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Memory, Technologies, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 1582 MHz
Around 17% higher pipelines: 448 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm

Boost clock speed	1900 MHz vs 1582 MHz
Pipelines	448 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce MX230
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262
PassMark - G3D Mark		1830
PassMark - G2D Mark		214
Geekbench - OpenCL		6740
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		21.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		445.82
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		32.43
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		102.234
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2680
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2680
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce MX230
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Pascal
Code name	Renoir	GP108
Launch date	Q1'2020	21 February 2019
Place in performance rating	1044	981
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz	1582 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	448	384
Core clock speed		1519 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		10 Watt
Transistor count		1,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Number of simultaneous displays	3
Display Connectors		No outputs
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		6008 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None