Nvidia introduces Pascal GPUs MX230 and MX250 for laptops

Nvidia has put the GeForce MX230 and MX250 on its site. The new GPUs are, among other things, intended for relatively thin and light laptops, based on the Pascal architecture and not much faster than the previous generation.

The GPUs support DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.1, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 1.2. Nvidia has provided both with gddr5-vram. The MX230 and MX250 succeed the MX130 and MX150 respectively, which Nvidia announced in 2017 along with the lower-ranked MX110.

It is striking that, according to Nvidia itself, the GPU performs comparable to the previous models. Nvidia uses the GeForce Performance Score for this, which gives an indication of the performance compared to the Intel UHD 620 GPU. With the MX230 and MX250, Nvidia specifies that the comparison is made with the UHD 620 of the Core i5-8265U, with the MX130 and MX150 the company talks about performance compared to a simple UHD 620.

According to the manufacturer, an MX150 can even outperform an MX250 depending on the configuration such as clock speed, although both are Pascal based. Notebookcheck speculates that it may be the same GPU. The MX130 is also hardly inferior to the MX230, although the former is still based on the old Maxwell architecture and the MX230 on Pascal.