RTX A500 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 rated305
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.12
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU117GA107
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date25 August 2020 (4 years ago)10 November 2021 (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 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed1275 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)31 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate71.40113.3
Floating-point processing power2.285 TFLOPS7.25 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data1-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s112.0 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 outputsNo outputs

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 10 November 2021
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 A500, 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 A500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps is a notebook card while RTX A500 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps
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