Saturday, December 18th 2021
NVIDIA Announces Three New Mobile GPUs With Spring 2022 Availability
NVIDIA has just announced three new mobile GPUs, although the question is how new any of them really are, as the model names suggest they're anything but. First up is the GeForce RTX 2050, which should be based on the Turing architecture. The other two GPUs are the GeForce MX550 and MX570, both presumably based on the Ampere architecture, although NVIDIA hasn't confirmed the specifics.
The GeForce RTX 2050 features 2048 CUDA cores, which is more than the mobile RTX 2060, but it has lower clock speeds and a vastly lower power draw at 30-45 Watts depending on the notebook design choices and cooling. It's also limited to 4 GB of 64-bit GDDR6 memory, which puts this in GeForce MX territory when it comes to memory bandwidth, as NVIDIA quotes an up to memory bandwidth of a mere 112 GB/s.
The two GeForce MX parts also support GDDR6 memory, but beyond that, NVIDIA hasn't released anything tangible in terms of the specs. NVIDIA mentions that the GeForce MX550 will replace the MX450, while stating both GPUs are intended to boost the performance for video and photo editing on the move, with the MX570 also being suitable for gaming. All three GPUs are said to ship in laptops sometime this coming spring.
Update: According to a tweet by ComputerBase, who has confirmed the information with Nvidia, the RTX 2050 and the MX570 are based on Ampere and the GA107 GPU, with the MX550 being based on Turin and the TU117 GPU. The MX570 is also said to support DLSS and "limited" RTX features, whatever that means.
Sources:
Nvidia, Nvidia 2, @ComputerBase
The GeForce RTX 2050 features 2048 CUDA cores, which is more than the mobile RTX 2060, but it has lower clock speeds and a vastly lower power draw at 30-45 Watts depending on the notebook design choices and cooling. It's also limited to 4 GB of 64-bit GDDR6 memory, which puts this in GeForce MX territory when it comes to memory bandwidth, as NVIDIA quotes an up to memory bandwidth of a mere 112 GB/s.
Update: According to a tweet by ComputerBase, who has confirmed the information with Nvidia, the RTX 2050 and the MX570 are based on Ampere and the GA107 GPU, with the MX550 being based on Turin and the TU117 GPU. The MX570 is also said to support DLSS and "limited" RTX features, whatever that means.
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As for the UI, I have no issues with it. It has been the same for the last 15 years, which to me, is just convenient. I hate re-learning to navigate menus just because some random UI engineer decided that I should. AMD's new drivers look nice, but their menu structure is overcomplicated, imo. It's like nvidia's Control Panel and GeForce Experience under one app. At least nvidia gives you the option to install and use them separately.