RTX A1000 Mobile 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 rated222
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.24
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU117GA107
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date25 August 2020 (4 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 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 cores8962048
Core clock speed1035 MHz630 MHz
Boost clock speed1275 MHz1140 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)31 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate71.4072.96
Floating-point processing power2.285 TFLOPS4.669 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs5664
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s176.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 August 2020 30 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 31 Watt 60 Watt

MX450 30.5W 8Gbps has 93.5% lower power consumption.

RTX A1000 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps and RTX A1000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps is a notebook graphics card while RTX A1000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps
GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps
NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile
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