GeForce MX150: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce MX150 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.89% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce MX150 sales 17 May 2017. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Pascal architecture and made with 14 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 40.1 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 10 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce MX150: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking591
Place by popularity99
Power efficiency40.38of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGP108
Market segmentLaptop
Release date17 May 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce MX150's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce MX150's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed937 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed1038 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors1,800 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)10 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate24.91of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.7972 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs24of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce MX150 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce MX150: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1253 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth40.1 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce MX150. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce MX150, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131
CUDA6.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce MX150. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce MX150 5.89

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce MX150 2268

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

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3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

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3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

GeForce MX150 3488

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

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GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

GeForce MX150 9614

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

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3DMark Time Spy Graphics

GeForce MX150 1046

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

GeForce MX150 8309

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.

GeForce MX150 9799

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 medical-01

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01

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SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase

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SPECviewperf 12 - Maya

This part of SPECviewperf 12 workstation benchmark uses Autodesk Maya 13 engine to render a superhero energy plant static scene consisting of more than 700 thousand polygons, in six different modes.

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SPECviewperf 12 - Catia

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SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks

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SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX

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SPECviewperf 12 - Creo

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SPECviewperf 12 - Medical

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SPECviewperf 12 - Energy

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 3dsmax-05

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SPECviewperf 12 - 3ds Max

This part of SPECviewperf 12 benchmark emulates work with 3DS Max, executing eleven tests in various use scenarios, including architectural modeling and animation for computer games.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce MX150 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD26
1440p30
4K20

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 10−11

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 19
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 7−8
Battlefield 5 26
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 21
Cyberpunk 2077 11
Far Cry 5 20
Far Cry New Dawn 24
Forza Horizon 4 80
Hitman 3 12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn 100
Metro Exodus 23
Red Dead Redemption 2 27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 36
Watch Dogs: Legion 50−55

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 7−8
Battlefield 5 18
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12−14
Cyberpunk 2077 7
Far Cry 5 18
Far Cry New Dawn 9
Forza Horizon 4 71
Hitman 3 12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn 100
Metro Exodus 17
Red Dead Redemption 2 16−18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 21
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 52
Watch Dogs: Legion 50−55

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 7−8
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12−14
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
Far Cry 5 12
Forza Horizon 4 14
Hitman 3 12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn 16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 16
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 11
Watch Dogs: Legion 50−55

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 16−18

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 10−12
Far Cry New Dawn 9−10

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 6−7
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Far Cry 5 7−8
Forza Horizon 4 16−18
Hitman 3 10−11
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
Metro Exodus 5−6
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 5−6
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 10−11

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 5−6
Far Cry New Dawn 4−5
Hitman 3 2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn 16
Metro Exodus 3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 4−5
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Far Cry 5 3−4
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion 2−3

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7

Closest competitors

GeForce MX150's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce MX150 is Radeon HD 6970M, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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