GeForce MX450 25W vs GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking326not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency23.18no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU117TU117
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date2 April 2020 (4 years ago)15 August 2020 (4 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 cores1024896
Core clock speed1035 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz930 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate76.8052.08
Floating-point processing power2.458 TFLOPS1.667 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6456

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s80 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1401.2
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2020 15 August 2020
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 25 Watt

GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

MX450 25W, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q and GeForce MX450 25W. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q
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NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W
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