NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared a Mobile platform GPU: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX450 25W and a Desktop platform GPU: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 91% (1777MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX450 25W

1.667 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +664%

12.74 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce MX450 25W

175

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +1383%

2596

GeForce MX450 25W

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GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 30

Mobile

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

720 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

3584

56

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

52.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

3.333 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.667 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

52.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GA106

N18S-G5

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

170W

-

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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