We knew from the start that the Nvidia GeForce MX2xx series could be easily rebranded as the prevailing MX1xx Pascal collection. Now that the primary laptops with MX250 GPUs are out in the wild, we’re in a position to check exactly how much faster the MX250 can be compared to the popular MX150.
Long story short, the outcomes are unsurprising, if not disappointing. Our first in-residence MX250 PC again had a 3DMark 11 Graphics rating of 4655 points, compared to 4219 points from a mean MX150 PC. This represents an uncooked performance enhancement of just 10.3 percent.
Worse yet, the overall performance delta appears to shrink when playing walk titles at local 1080p or with DX12 enabled. Our MX250 computer returns Fire Strike and Time Spy Graphics rankings of 3455 and 1050 points, respectively, which is within 3 percent of the mean MX150.
Since the margins are so narrow, present MX150 laptops may even perform quicker than the MX250. The Razer Blade Stealth, for example, outscores our MX250 PC by 5 to 10 percent when running the identical 3DMark benchmarks.
Remember that our comparisons here best mirror the Acer Aspire five A515-52G-721H with MX250 images. Performance is expected to vary between laptops equipped with the equal MX250 GPU, similar to what we discovered on maximum MX150 laptops. We’ll have a clearer photograph of the MX250 once we sample greater laptops within the coming weeks to months. A Max-Q model of the MX250 exists nicely for even slower overall performance than we’ve recorded here.
