NVIDIA preps GeForce MX450 to combat integrated Xe and Vega

WCCF Tech reports NVIDIA isn't planning to give up on the entry-level video card market. The GPU designer is said to be working on the GeForce MX450, a new Turing-based low-end option for the laptop market. With the GeForce MX450, NVIDIA aims to offer a performance level enticing enough not to use the Intel Xe DG1 or AMD Vega based integrated graphics. The card uses GDDR6 memory.

So how will NVIDIA tackle these two opponents with pose a large threat to their entry-level efforts? The answer is with Turing. NVIDIA's next MX GPU has leaked out by ROGame, a TU117 GPU based part that has a base clock of 540 MHz and up to 2 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 10 Gbps. The chip has a TDP of under 25W so similar to the current GeForce MX350 but it would definitely offer much better performance.

The GeForce MX450 will likely hit the market in the second half of 2020. Performance-wise, WCCF Tech speculates it could offer 80 or even 90 percent of the performance of a GeForce GTX 1650.