Arc A380 vs GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated328
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data43.63
Power efficiencyno data14.86
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameTU117DG2-128
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date25 August 2020 (4 years ago)14 June 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$149

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 cores8961024
Core clock speed1035 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed1275 MHz2050 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)31 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate71.40131.2
Floating-point processing power2.285 TFLOPS4.198 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs5664
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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 data222 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1937 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s186.0 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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 August 2020 14 June 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 31 Watt 75 Watt

MX450 30.5W 8Gbps has 141.9% lower power consumption.

Arc A380, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps and Arc A380. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps is a notebook card while Arc A380 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps
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