NVIDIA officially (albeit quietly) launched the MX250 and MX230 mobile GPUs last week. This provides additional low-power GPU options for gaming laptops. However, the official specifications were not exactly quite clear on what these new GPUs bring.
In fact, just going by the numbers the company provided, it looked like both new GPUs performed on par or worse than prior MX150 and MX130 GPUs.
Now that laptops with these new GPUs are finally coming out, we can finally get a clearer picture of what they have to offer.
NVIDIA’s website lists the performance metric based on Intel’s UHD620 IGP as the base (1.0), with NVIDIA GPUs as multiples of this.
Official MX250 GPU Specs from NVIDIA
Although the GPU company is clear about using an Intel Whiskey Lake i5-8265U IGP for the new MX250/MX230, they did not specify which CPU they used for the MX150/MX130. According to Notebookcheck, the spec sheet actually uses the UHD620 IGP from a Kaby Lake Core i5-7200U. So the new GPUs are definitely (slightly) faster.
While both the MX250 and MX150 use the same Pascal architecture, the MX250’s memory interface supports higher speeds. Specifically running up to 3.5GHz vs just 3GHz with the MX150. So it is not just a rebadged MX150 as initially thought. Both the MX230 and MX150 also support Vulkan 1.1, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 1.2 APIs.
Last month some rumours surfaced from exputer surrounding a white variant of the Xbox Series…
On March 25th, Colossal Order released the first DLC for Cities Skylines II, the city…
Today Colorful Technology has launched two new AMD B650 motherboards under their CVN Gaming Frozen…
Sharkoon Technologies has today unveiled their SKILLER SGK40, a customizable mechanical gaming keyboard with edge…
MSI has just revealed their latest feature-packed gaming monitor, the MSI MAG 274UPF E2. It…
Thermaltake has just revealed its latest addition to its already packed and awesome case collection,…