GeForce MX230 and Radeon RX 550X Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce MX230
Radeon RX 550X Mobile
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N17S-G0
Polaris 12
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
February 2019
January 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1531 MHz
1287 MHz
Core clock speed
1519 MHz
1176 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,800 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
256
640
Power consumption (TDP)
10 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.31
51.48
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
48.06 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+
Optimus
+
-