GeForce MX450 N18S-G5 vs HD Graphics 500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1145	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	8.89	no data
Architecture	Generation 9.0 (2015−2016)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Apollo Lake GT1	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	1 September 2015 (9 years ago)	1 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 cores	96	1024
Core clock speed	200 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	650 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	189 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	7.800	no data
Floating-point processing power	0.1248 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	2	no data
TMUs	12	no data

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).

Interface	Ring Bus	no data
Width	IGP	no 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 type	DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	no data
Memory bus width	System Shared	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	5000 MHz
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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus	-	+
Quick Sync	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	DirectX 12_1
Shader Model	6.4	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	3.0	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 September 2015	1 August 2020
Chip lithography	14 nm	10 nm

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