RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated72
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data81.58
Power efficiencyno data47.49
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU117AD107
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date25 August 2020 (4 years ago)12 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$649

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores8962816
Core clock speed1395 MHz1620 MHz
Boost clock speed1575 MHz2130 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)31 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate88.20187.4
Floating-point processing power2.822 TFLOPS12 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs5688
Tensor Coresno data88
Ray Tracing Coresno data22

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 4.0 x4PCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data2-slot
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 amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth80 GB/s256.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 August 2020 12 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 31 Watt 70 Watt

MX450 30.5W 10Gbps has 125.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 2000 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps and RTX 2000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps is a notebook card while RTX 2000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps
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