The NVIDIA MX Series is a special product line, it is an entry-level discrete graphics card for thin and light books, and has undergone many upgrades over the years, and the performance has steadily increased. For example, the latest MX450 is based on turing architecture, specifically TU117 core, with 896 CUDA, the base frequency is 1395 MHz, the acceleration frequency is 1575 MHz, support GDDR5/GDDR6 memory and PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, the video memory capacity is 2GB, the memory bit width is 64 bits, which is equivalent to a gtX 1650 with a video memory capacity and memory width cut in half, and there is no problem in playing a light online game like "League of Legends".
With the CES 2022 exhibition approaching, NVIDIA will also release the next generation of entry-level discrete graphics card, recently Geekbench 5 database appeared a Lenovo thin and light book, the device is equipped with an unnamed NVIDIA new card, judging from the specifications and test results, this new card is most likely MX550.
According to the identification information, this MX550 is based on ampere architecture, not surprisingly also a GA107 core, with 2048 CUDA, but also equipped with 2GB of GDDR6 video memory, memory width is unknown. The high probability MX550 is also a reduced version of the RTX 3050.
In addition to the MX550 discrete graphics card, the processor equipped with this new Lenovo machine has also been identified, the model is core i7-1260P, not surprisingly this will be the main model of the 12th generation Core mobile version of Alder Lake-P, with 4 performance cores and 8 energy efficiency cores, a total of 16 threads, single core Turbo up to 4.6GHz, tertiary cache capacity of 18MB.
Editor's Note: Whether it is Intel, AMD or NVIDIA, they will all release a large number of new products at CES 2022, especially in the field of mobile platforms. Intel's 12th Generation Core Alder Lake-P Mobile, AMD's Ryzen™ 6000 Series Processor Rembrandt Family, NVIDIA's RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, and the newly exposed MX550 Entry Card, so stay tuned!