GeForce MX350: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce MX350 was NVIDIA's answer to a simple question in 2020: how much discrete graphics can you fit in a 20-watt ultrabook? The catalog has benchmarked it in 100 games at 1080p across 20 matched models. This guide covers what that modest envelope actually delivers.

Where the MX350 sits in 2026

The catalog scores the chip at 30.8 — 173rd of 341 scored mobile GPUs, a few places shy of the table's exact middle. The neighborhood is the story: just above sit the GeForce GTX 1050 (31.3) and Iris Xe MAX (31.3), and just below the GTX 1050 with Max-Q Design (30.5), Apple's A18 Pro GPU (29.3) and M1 (29). That placement is no coincidence — the MX350 is Pascal silicon (the GP107S die) cut to 640 cores in a 20 W package, so it lands precisely where a power-limited 2017 entry GPU belongs, level with modern thin-and-light integrated graphics.

What the chip brings

Under the 2020 badge is 2016-era engineering: the GP107S die on 14 nm, 640 shader cores, 2 GB of GDDR5 on a narrow 64-bit bus with 56 GB/s of bandwidth, a 1468 MHz boost clock and roughly 1.2 TFLOPS of throughput. There is no ray tracing, no DLSS, no Resizable BAR — CUDA acceleration for video and photo work is the modern justification this chip ever had. The public synthetics agree on its scale: PassMark 2818, Time Spy 1336.

FPS in games at 1080p

The competitive catalog runs as well as it does on any entry discrete GPU: CS:GO and Overwatch at their 240 cap, GTA V and PUBG at 140, Valorant at 129, FIFA 21 at 88, Dota 2 at 83 and Fortnite at 82 at the high preset. Below that top tier the floor arrives quickly — Rocket League at 67, Counter-Strike 2 at 66, Battlefield V and Forza Horizon 4 at 37, The Witcher 3 at 27, and the modern AAA shelf is effectively closed: Cyberpunk 2077 at 16, Elden Ring at 15, Baldur's Gate 3 at 11, Atomic Heart at 7.

Laptops that carry it

The catalog matches 20 models, and the roster is ultrabook country: Acer Swift 3 machines from 2021–2022 asking $739–$840, ASUS VivoBook S14/S15 and X413 units at $399, Lenovo's IdeaPad 3i at $399 and ThinkPad E14/E15 Gen 2 business machines at $686. The roster medians capture the compromise these machines made: energy efficiency 80.7 and mobility 59 — genuinely portable laptops — against a gaming index of just 26.5.

Bottom line

The MX350 is a smoothing chip, not a gaming one: it makes an ultrabook feel quick in everyday graphics work and keeps the esports classics comfortably above 60 FPS at 1080p. If a listed machine's price assumes serious gaming capability, that assumption is wrong — the chip ranks alongside the GTX 1050 and modern integrated graphics, and the catalog's 27 compare articles against RTX 3050-and-up parts show the gap plainly. Buy the laptop for its chassis, keyboard and battery; treat the GPU as a bonus.