GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps vs HD Graphics 2500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1175not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGeneration 7.0 (2012−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameIvy Bridge GT1TU117
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 April 2012 (12 years ago)25 August 2020 (4 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 cores48896
Core clock speed650 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speed1150 MHz1575 MHz
Number of transistors392 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknown31 Watt
Texture fill rate6.90088.20
Floating-point processing power0.1104 TFLOPS2.822 TFLOPS
ROPs132
TMUs656

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 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data80 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.04.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.801.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2012 25 August 2020
Chip lithography 22 nm 12 nm

MX450 30.5W 10Gbps has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 83.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 2500 and GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 2500 is a desktop card while GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps is a notebook one.


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Intel HD Graphics 2500
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