Slower Nvidia GeForce MX150 GPU reportedly found in some laptops

By Darren Allan

It seems that buyers of laptops which run with Nvidia’s GeForce MX150 discrete graphics should be aware that there are reportedly two different versions of this GPU, one of which apparently offers considerably less on the performance front.

According to some digging done by NotebookCheck, these two variants are differentiated by their device ID of ‘10DE 1D10′ and ‘10DE 1D12′, the former of which is the standard (full-speed) GPU, and the latter runs with lesser clock speeds and a lower power draw.

NotebookCheck posted an example GPU-Z (a graphics diagnostics and benchmark tool) screenshot of a standard 1D10 version of the MX150 running in an Asus ZenBook UX430UN with a clock speed of 1,469MHz and boost to 1,532MHz.

Then, the report shows a shot of the 1D12 flavor running in a Lenovo IdeaPad 320S with a far slower base clock speed of 937MHz with boost to 1,038MHz. The memory is also clocked 250MHz lower in this variant of the GPU – other specs, such as the amount of CUDA cores, remain the same.

The TDP, or thermal design power, of these two versions of the MX150 are very different, too, with the former hitting 25W, and the slower 1D12 only using …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components