Nvidia has a new variant of the geforce mx150 for notebooks

NVIDIA released a GeForce MX150 GPU for notebooks in May of last year with good results within its range. The Notebookcheck team discovered that there are actually two variants of the GeForce MX150: These are the standard 1D10 and the much slower 1D12 variant. Normally, this would not trigger an alarm. However, neither NVIDIA nor the manufacturer distinguishes clarify which of the two variants of the MX150 is being used.

There is a less powerful variant of the GeForce MX150.

Users who buy laptops with a GeForce MX150 have no way of knowing which of the two graphics the device owns. The only way to find out is to use tools like GPU-Z and look at the model (Device ID). But how significant is the performance difference between the two variants?

Starting with the specifications of the GeForce MX150, the standard 1D10 variant has a core frequency of 1469 MHz, which can go as high as 1532 MHz and a memory clock of 1502 MHz. Notebookcheck first saw this variant on the MSI. PL62 and the Asus Zenbook UX430UN. Later they discovered the 1D12 variant works at much lower frequencies, from 937 MHz to 1038MHz, with a memory speed of 1235MHz. The 1D12 is found in IdeaPad 320S, ZenBook 13 UX331UN, Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3, HP Envy 13 and ZenBook UX331UA laptops from Lenovo.

This means a 36% reduction in GPU frequencies. Based on the 3DMark and 3DMark 11 tests, consumers can expect 20-25% less performance with the 1D12 variant. Of the 13 notebooks tested by Notebookcheck, the five models equipped with the 1D12 variant of the GeForce MX150 are at the bottom of the list. Nvidia's decision to sneakily introduce the 1D12 variant on thin and light notebooks was probably to comply with the 10W TDP instead of the 25W of the original variant.

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