GeForce MX330: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce MX330 was NVIDIA's 2020 refresh of the entry MX line — a 10-watt chip for everyday laptops that wanted a discrete badge on the box. The catalog has benchmarked it in 63 games at 1080p across 8 matched models.

Where the MX330 sits in 2026

The catalog scores the chip at 24 — 191st of 341 scored mobile GPUs, just below the table's middle. The neighborhood is a generational reunion: the GTX 960M (24.2), Radeon RX 550 (24.1) and Radeon Vega 11 (24.1) above it; its own siblings the MX250 (23.7) and MX150 (22.5) below. The MX line was always rebadged older silicon, and the ranking makes it explicit — a 2020 chip performing exactly at 2015's mainstream gaming level, five years late.

What the chip brings

The GP108B die on 14 nm Pascal: 384 shader cores, 2 GB of GDDR5 on a 64-bit bus with 56 GB/s of bandwidth, a 1594 MHz boost clock, a 10 W envelope and roughly 1.2 TFLOPS. The efficiency numbers are the chip's genuine strength — it delivers its modest output with essentially no cost to battery life or chassis thickness. Public synthetics: PassMark 2332, Time Spy 1160.

FPS in games at 1080p

The high-preset table splits cleanly at the esports line. Above it: CS:GO and Overwatch at 240 FPS, GTA V and PUBG at 140, Valorant at 118, FIFA 21 at 75, Dota 2 at 70 and Fortnite at 63. Below it, quickly: Rocket League at 47, Forza Horizon 4 at 31, Battlefield V at 29, Counter-Strike 2 at 27, Far Cry 5 at 23 — and the modern shelf is out of reach: The Witcher 3 at 19, Cyberpunk 2077 at 10, Resident Evil 4 Remake at 9, Metro Exodus at 11.

Laptops that carry it

The 8 matched models are 2019–2021 everyday laptops: ASUS's ExpertBook B1 at $686, VivoBook 15 at $339 and VivoBook 14 at $399, Dell's Vostro 3500 at $604 and Inspiron 5502 at $339, Lenovo's ThinkPad T15 Gen 1 at $373–$529 and IdeaPad Flex 5 convertible at $243. Roster medians capture the design intent: energy efficiency 81.4 and mobility 56 against a gaming index of 17.

Bottom line

The MX330 is a battery-life chip that carries a gaming-sounding name. Its real peers are half-decade-older mainstream GPUs, and its machines — efficient, portable, $243–$686 — were never sold to gamers. As a used buy, judge these laptops on chassis, keyboard and screen; the GPU adds smooth video decode and exactly the esports titles a modern integrated GPU also handles. Anything from 2023 onward with current integrated graphics matches or beats it, which the ranking states plainly: 191st of 341, and falling.