Nvidia’s MX150 Graphics Card

Although laptops are getting slimmer and lighter, the need for powerful Graphics Processing Units are on the rise. To address this, Nvidia introduced the MX150. A highly efficient chip that’s easy to Power and cool. Manufactured for ultrabooks for light to medium gaming. It runs at a third of the power compared to other GPUs in it’s class. Notwithstanding, the MX family of GPUs doesn’t miss out on Nvidia’s core features including Optimus, CUDA, GPU boost and Direct X 12 support.

Thus, laptop manufacturers don’t have to charge a hefty premium for having a dedicated GPU. This is really good news for budget gamers and content creators alike. Nvidia claims a 4x video rendering time than traditional integrated processors like the Intel UHD 620. For this reason, lots of laptop companies have since switched to the MX150 to handle graphics processing. Read my review of the Acer Aspire series—both sporting the MX150 and also voted budget laptops of the year.

The MX150 is a lower power version of the 1030 chip. And built with a similar Pascal architecture. Still it manages to best the not too bad 940MX, is on par with the very well above average 960M and falls just behind the GTX1030/980M cards — which I would say are Nvidia’s current entry level, budget cards.

The MX150 runs at just 25W as against it’s counterpart’s 45. Therefore, it produces way less heat. In addition, With 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM, this tiny chip pulls off a Processing miracle. 

Consequently, an MX130 and MX110 will be released—even lower powered  10W under-clocked variants. For even thinner and lighter ultraportables. Updates on that soon. However, the MX150 is the best of the bunch.

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