GeForce2 MX 400 vs GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3

GTS 250 GTS 450 GTS 450 OEM GTS 450 Rev. 2 GTS 450 Rev. 3
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2 GTS 2 MX 2 MX + nForce 220 2 MX + nForce 420 2 MX 200 2 MX 200 LP 2 MX 200 PCI 2 MX 400 2 MX 400 PCI 2 MX DH Pro TV PCI 2 MX PCI 2 Ultra

Contents

GTS 450 Rev. 3 GTS 450 Rev. 3
GeForce2 MX 400 GeForce2 MX 400

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameGF116NV11 B2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 July 2012 (12 years ago)3 March 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores144no data
Core clock speed783 MHz200 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million20 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Wattno data
Texture fill rate18.790.8
Floating-point processing power0.451 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162
TMUs244

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3SDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s2.656 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI1x DVI, 1x VGA
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)7.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary

Recency 11 July 2012 3 March 2001
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 180 nm

GTS 450 Rev. 3 has an age advantage of 11 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 350% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 3 and GeForce2 MX 400. We've got no test results to judge.

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