NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX450 25W to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1178MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +135%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce MX450 25W

1.667 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 980MX +44%

252

GeForce MX450 25W

175

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce MX450 25W

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Aug 2020

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

720 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

896

104

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.76 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.08 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.333 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.667 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

52.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU117

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N18S-G5

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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