GeForce MX450 N18S-G5 vs Radeon RX 490M

Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePolarisN17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 August 2016 (8 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 coresno data1024
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizelargeno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data5000 MHz
Shared memory--

Supported technologies

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Optimus-+

API compatibility

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DirectX12DirectX 12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2016 1 August 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm

MX450 N18S-G5 has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

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AMD Radeon RX 490M
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NVIDIA GeForce MX450 N18S-G5
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