NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1575MHz vs 1176MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (31W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps +87%

2.822 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960M

1230

GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps +64%

2029

GeForce GTX 960M

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GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Aug 2020

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

1575 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

896

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

50.40 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.645 TFLOPS

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.822 TFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

TU117

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N18S-G5

Maxwell

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

31W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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