Thursday, February 13th 2020
NVIDIA GeForce MX350 and MX330 Surface, Pascal Based Entry mGPUs
NVIDIA's GeForce MX-series mobile GPU line exists so notebook manufacturers can put the NVIDIA logo on their products and boast of gaming capabilities. The company is giving finishing touches to its new GeForce MX330 and MX350 chips, based on the "Pascal" architecture. The MX330 is the company's second rebrand of the MX150 that's based on the 14 nm "GP108" silicon. It's equipped with 384 CUDA cores, and up to 2 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 64-bit wide memory interface. NVIDIA increased the clock speeds to 1531 MHz base, and 1594 MHz GPU Boost (compared to 1227/1468 MHz of the MX150), while remaining in the 25 W TDP envelope.
The MX350, on the other hand, is based on the 14 nm "GP107" silicon, is equipped with 640 CUDA cores, and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory across the same 64-bit bus width as the MX330; but has aggressive power-management that lends it a TDP of just 20 W, despite 66% more CUDA cores than the MX330. Both chips are easily capable of handling non-gaming tasks on typical 1080p / 1440p notebooks; but can game only at 720p thru 1080p, with low-to-mid settings.
Source:
NotebookCheck
The MX350, on the other hand, is based on the 14 nm "GP107" silicon, is equipped with 640 CUDA cores, and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory across the same 64-bit bus width as the MX330; but has aggressive power-management that lends it a TDP of just 20 W, despite 66% more CUDA cores than the MX330. Both chips are easily capable of handling non-gaming tasks on typical 1080p / 1440p notebooks; but can game only at 720p thru 1080p, with low-to-mid settings.
31 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce MX350 and MX330 Surface, Pascal Based Entry mGPUs
What does this mean? No 4K output?
Anything pascal-based features HDMI 2.0 and DP1.4, so 4K@60Hz is supported. Even the old MX150 can do 4K over HDMI or DP (nice and smooth, no jitter or delays).
In regards to gaming - that's also debatable. Pretty sure it can run DOOM 2016, Warframe and lots of other games at FHD Medium/High/Ultra with some minor tweaks.
GT1030 can do 8K, so it may do 4x4K if asked politely (buy I haven't seen a card with more than 3 outputs).
The MX350 is going to be a disaster, because it's a rebadged mobile GTX 1050, which was already severely power-constrained in the 35W it was often shoehorned into. In order to run at reference clocks, the mobile GTX1050 requires 53 Watts.
At 20W it might as well just be an MX150.Gigabyte made a GTX 1050 with four outputs and I used two of them for 8x 1080p projectors at an exhibition. Pretty sure the GP107 and GP108 have the same display block so both the MX350 and MX330 would handle it, given enough actual outputs.
I can only hope for better IGPs/on-die/near-die that are at 1650/1050 Ti-level at this point. The closest to this was the i7-8809G, but it was in an overpriced NUC and shared with a quad-core Kaby Lake CPU.
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Netflix got inspiration from somewhere... LoL
The 1030 is such a pile of junk. Even NV won't let their good drivers support it. Last I looked... LoL
As already mentioned here, the big thing about MX150/250/330 is that it uses GDDR5 which helps more than anything else at this level.
AMD's GPU division is a real disappointment of late - The dGPU team has squandered their 7nm advantage with nothing to take the performance crown back, nothing particularly power-efficient, and nothing viable for laptops or silent/passive/low-power dGPU whatsoever.
The iGPU team has thrown away countless opportunities since Llano showed the first potential of the AMD and ATi merger. They're chasing CPU performance in an era where plenty of people are happy with their decade-old Core2 for general web/office/media playback. Ryzen 4800U has four too many cores and 8 too few Vega CUs, IMO.
I guess my expectations of this card were lower to begin with. If it runs 4K video smoothly, Im good.
Driving a 4K screen for my parents is literally why I got them that 1030. It's a shame that it can't do Netflix HDR but it's half height, and by the time that impacts my parents hopefully it's new computer time for a full height card.
Mine is an Asus Phoenix one with already pretty good cooling, though I've put an old Accelero Twin Turbo for it since I had it lying around. And it does run many games with low details with 1080p having a good framerate.
Not able to play Youtube is pure BS, no problems at all with a 2600K @ 4.5GHz with 1080p60 videos.
I meant 4K60 Youtube, but yes it does perfectly fine at 1080p.
It's a base model GPU, that isn't exactly stellar though put up against current iGPUs. Against the HD4000 in that 4790, it's about twice as fast. Against a 630 it's kinda ehhh... Especially when you take into account Intel has some really decent video hardware lurking in there.
An RX 560 or 1050 are much better choices if you can afford it.