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The NVIDIA GeForce MX350 is a GTX 1050 in Disguise

Rebranding old products and selling them as part of a new generation isn’t anything new in the hardware market. AMD did it multiple times with Polaris, NVIDIA also does it with their lower-end SKUs and Intel too, has been rebranding its older Core i7s as the next-gen i3s (kind of). These practices although completely legit, draw a considerable amount of flak from enthusiasts and critics alike. The newest GPU to join the rebranded club is the upcoming GeForce MX350. Turns out that the MX350 is a variant of the Pascal-based GTX 1050. Of course, NVIDIA will never officially confirm this but we know better.

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Credits: _rogame
  • NVIDIA_DEV.1C91.0922.1028 = “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050”
  • NVIDIA_DEV.1C94.3FD3.17AA = “NVIDIA GeForce MX350”

As you can see, the MX350 is going to be based on the same Pascal die as the GTX 1050. Let’s consider the specs for a moment:

GTX 1050 (2GB)MX350 (est)MX250
Shaders640640384
Boost Clock~1400 MHz~1500 MHz~1550 MHz
Memory2GB GDDR54GB GDDR54 GB GDDR5
Bus Width128-bit128-bit64-bit
Memory Size7 Gbps7 Gbps7 Gbps

Keep in mind that these are the speculated specs, not official figures provided by NVIDIA. We also have a benchmark, courtesy of the Chinese outlet, ITHome:

As you can see, the MX350 is 10-15% faster than the preceding MX250. Nothing extraordinary, but just about what you’d expect from a cut-down GTX 1050. We’ll keep you posted and update this story as we hear more.

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ITHome

Areej

Computer hardware enthusiast, PC gamer, and almost an engineer. Former co-founder of Techquila (2017-2019), a fairly successful tech outlet. Been working on Hardware Times since 2019, an outlet dedicated to computer hardware and its applications.

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