GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps sales 25 August 2020. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 31 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Turing (2018−2022) | |
| GPU code name | TU117 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 25 August 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 896 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1035 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Boost clock speed | 1275 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 4,700 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 31 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 71.40 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.285 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 56 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 64 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | |
| CUDA | 7.5 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps is Radeon HD 6950.
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