GeForce MX450 25W vs NVS 3100M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1226not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.60no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGT218TU117
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)15 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 cores16896
Core clock speed606 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speedno data930 MHz
Number of transistors260 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate4.84852.08
Floating-point processing power0.04698 TFLOPS1.667 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs856

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed790 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.64 GB/s80 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 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA1.27.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 15 August 2020
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 25 Watt

NVS 3100M has 78.6% lower power consumption.

MX450 25W, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between NVS 3100M and GeForce MX450 25W. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 3100M is a mobile workstation card while GeForce MX450 25W is a mobile workstation one.


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