GeForce MX130: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce MX130 is NVIDIA's 2017 entry thin-laptop GPU — and a familiar one under the hood: it is Maxwell GM108S silicon, the same core NVIDIA had been shipping since the 840M era, rebranded once more. This guide covers its 16 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the 7 catalog models that carry it.

Where the GeForce MX130 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 12.1 ranks it 244th of 341 — the bottom third. The neighbors: the Iris Plus 640 (12.4), UHD P750 (12.4) and UHD 750 (12.2) above; the 940MX (12), Radeon R7 M360 (11.5) and FirePro W5130M (11.3) below. Ranking next to the 940MX is no coincidence — that is literally the same silicon generation under a different badge.

What the chip brings

Maxwell architecture on 28nm: 384 CUDA cores at up to 1189MHz, 2GB of GDDR5 on a 64-bit bus with 40GB/s, a 30W envelope, 0.95 teraflops. Public benchmarks: PassMark 1799, Time Spy 645, Fire Strike 2345, compute at 4914 (Vulkan) and 6253 (OpenCL). In 2017 this was the «make the office laptop slightly less hopeless» option; the third badge on the same die.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: Valorant at 55, DOTA 2 at 35, Fortnite at 32, Counter-Strike 2 at 27, Forza Horizon 4 at 20, Battlefield 5 at 16, Forza Horizon 5 at 15, Far Cry 5 and The Witcher 3 at 14. Then the floor: the Resident Evil 4 remake at 6, Cyberpunk 2077 at 4, Metro Exodus at 3. Light esports at reduced settings — the same game table the 940MX class always delivered.

Laptops that carry it

All seven listings are genuine hosts from 2017-2019: IdeaPad 3 15IM at $222, Latitude 5591/5491 at $357/278, HP ProBook 450 G6 at $217, Latitude 5590 at $241 and Latitude 3500/3400 at $234/250. Fleet medians: best-CPU 36.4, gaming index 27, energy efficiency 63.5 — entry business platforms of their generation, with the graphics median equal to this chip. Sub-$250 pricing makes the whole fleet a budget-office proposition.

Bottom line

The MX130 is a rebrand with a modest but honest table: Valorant and DOTA 2 stay playable, nothing modern does. Its host fleet is cheap, sturdy business metal — reasonable buys for office use at $217-357 if the GPU is treated as a bonus. For gaming ambitions beyond light esports, the table below is the closing argument.