Many laptops with lower end dGPUs will have the GPU share a heatsink with the CPU, so ultimately its temperature is also affected by what else is going on. It looks like your CPU is doing some work. Can you recheck the GPU temps after you close all other programs so that the CPU idles at 1%?
#Nvidia MX350 heating up while not gaming
mossy iris
CPU usage, not GPU.
OK. now close Task Manager and let it sit for 15 minutes, then open Task Manager again
mossy iris
Hmm. Can you verify with HWinfo?
Close it, and open it but in sensors-only mode
Press No
Not relevant. We just need the stats
mossy iris
your gpu idles at 52C. that's good
your CPU somehow hit 80C and your laptop's throttle point is 80C. You also idle at 62C.
these are very bad
I suggest cleaning the laptop's heatsink and repasting both the CPU and GPU (you'll need to do both at once in the most likehood.). If you're unsure, get a computer shop to do this for you.
mossy iris
Eh, sometimes things happen. This laptop seems to be running a bit too hot on the CPU side
Either way, there doesn't seem to be any problems with the GPU. Just the CPU
Revert to defaults and uninstall it.
Not really.
It's just not much hardware in the first place
The 1650 desktop is +143% faster.
That card is still too slow for today's AAA games.
For Fortnite: can you check the in-game settings?
Screenshot everything
Remember that VRAM for iGPUs are a "suggestion" but hard for dGPUs
Since iGPUs can and will carve out more system RAM as needed on the spot
Most 3D games do
Since it needs to copy the frame buffer to the iGPU
...restore defaults before continuing on the NVIDIA Control Panel
Then
1080p might be a stretch on the MX350. Reduce the render scale by adjusting the 3D resolution.
Fornite has become quite a lot harder to run since the UE5 update.
You did have a bad setting
Power management mode should be set to optimal power
Don't double up on render scale changes. Keep the output resolution at 1920x1080
If you set it to 1280x720, then you set a lower render scale on top of that, you end up double upscaling
And your UI gets blurred too
I'm not sure what they use but if UE5 has TSR implemented the result shouldn't look too rough
NVIDIA Control Panel, but tbh just change the setting I called out
Yeah. For most games that is approximately somewhere close to 720p. (Some games may have this point closer to 50% due to calculating based on total pixels instead of fraction of an axe.)
The frame rate now looks good. Now play the game and see if it does something bad
If you're OK with the result. Remember that it'd be sub-HD, with the clarity implications
Not much!
Remember. DO NOT FOLLOW YOUTUBE GUIDES
Most of the time, leaving the Control Panel settings to defaults is the best option.
Well
In 100% of laptops, if a laptop has a dGPU, it'll be faster than the iGPU.
So if it's slower, misconfiguration.