GeForce MX450 12W vs Radeon R7 360

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking515not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.34no data
Power efficiency5.54no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTobagoTU117S
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date18 June 2015 (9 years ago)15 August 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores768896
Core clock speedno data720 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz930 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate50.4052.08
Floating-point processing power1.613 TFLOPS1.667 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4856

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Length165 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pinNone
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed6000 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth112 GB/s80 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
PowerTune+-
TrueAudio+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan+1.3
Mantle+-
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 June 2015 15 August 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 12 Watt

MX450 12W has an age advantage of 5 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 733.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 360 and GeForce MX450 12W. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 360 is a desktop card while GeForce MX450 12W is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R7 360
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