GeForce MX150: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce MX150 is NVIDIA's 2017 thin-laptop GPU — laptop Pascal's smallest die, essentially a mobile GT 1030. This guide covers its 16 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the 3 catalog listings matched to its name.

Where the GeForce MX150 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 22.5 ranks it 193rd of 341 — just below the table's midpoint. The neighbors: the Vega 11 Graphics (24.1), MX330 (24) and MX250 (23.7) above — its own successors, ahead by two points — and the Radeon 540X (22.2), Apple M4 (22.1) and Radeon Graphics Compute (21.7) below. Ranking level with Apple's integrated graphics and its own rebrand line is a fair verdict on a 384-core part.

What the chip brings

Pascal architecture on 14nm, the GP108 die: 384 CUDA cores at up to 1038MHz, 4GB of GDDR5 on a 64-bit bus with 40GB/s, a low-double-digit-watt envelope in this record and 0.8 teraflops. Public benchmarks: PassMark 2249, Time Spy 1046, Fire Strike 3488, compute at 8121 (Vulkan) and 9543 (OpenCL). It made ultrabooks of 2017-2019 modestly game-capable — the ancestor of the MX450/MX550 line covered elsewhere in this catalog.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: Valorant at 100, DOTA 2 at 68, Fortnite at 59, Battlefield 5 at 39, Forza Horizon 4 at 25, Counter-Strike 2 at 24, The Witcher 3 at 19, Far Cry 5 at 17, Forza Horizon 5 at 14. The bottom: Cyberpunk 2077 at 10, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 9, Metro Exodus at 6. Light-to-mid esports at high, older titles at medium — the classic thin-GPU envelope, a step below the MX450.

Laptops that carry it — or the name

The matched pool has three listings, and they need honest scoping. The Dell Latitude 5501 (2019) at $345 is a genuine host — that business platform offered the MX150. The two Acer Aspire 5 entries (A517-58, 2023, at $553, and A517-52, 2021, at $590) are name-matches: those machines postdate this GPU and carry other graphics — the pool medians (best-GPU 55.2 against this chip's 22.5, gaming index 48) describe the stronger options in those listings, not the MX150. Judge each listing on its actual spec row.

Bottom line

The MX150 is a milestone chip — the first «MX» thin-GPU — with a modest legacy table: Valorant at high settings is its genuine party trick. The realistic buy is a well-kept Latitude-class business machine at entry price; the Aspire name-matches in the roster should be read as different machines entirely. For a few dollars more, the MX450 page in this catalog shows what one generation added.