GeForce MX450 N18S-G5 vs HD Graphics (Skylake)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Gen. 9 Skylake (2015)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Skylake GT1	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1
Market segment	Laptop	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	12	1024
Core clock speed	300 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	800 MHz	no data
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	10 nm

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	GDDR6
Memory bus width	64/128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	no data	5000 MHz
Shared memory	+	-

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_1

DirectX 12_1

Pros & cons summary

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

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