NVIDIA announces three new portable GPUs

Yesterday, NVIDIA announced three new portable GPUs, although the question is whether any of them are really new, as new product names suggest they are not. The first is the GeForce RTX 2050, which will likely be based on the Turing architecture. The other two GPUs are GeForce MX550 and MX570, both based on the Ampere GPU, although NVIDIA hasn't confirmed the details.

The GeForce RTX 2050 features 2,048 CUDA cores, which is more than the portable RTX 2060, but has lower core frequencies and a significantly lower power draw, standing at 30-45W depending on laptop design and cooling options. Additionally, the card is limited to 4GB of GDDR6 memory with a 64-bit bus width, which puts this card right in line with GeForce MX when it comes to memory bandwidth, as NVIDIA offers only 112GB/s of bandwidth.

As for my GeForce MX cards. They also support GDDR6 memory, but other than that NVIDIA hasn't released anything concrete in terms of other specs. But NVIDIA mentions that the GeForce MX550 will replace the MX450, noting that both new GPUs will aim to boost video and photo-editing performance with laptops, with the MX570 also being suitable for gaming.

All three GPUs are said to be shipping in laptops sometime next spring. According to a tweet by ComputerBase, which confirmed information with Nvidia, the RTX 2050 and MX570 will be based on the Ampere architecture and the GA107 graphics processor, while the MX550 will be based on the Turin architecture and the TU117 GPU. The MX570 is also said to support DLSS and "limited" RTX features, which we don't know exactly.