NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2020
Jan 2015
Generation
GeForce MX
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
720 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
930 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64bit
128bit
Bandwidth
80.00GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
14
-
Shading Units
896
1024
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.76 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
52.08 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
3.333 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
1.667 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
52.08 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU117
GM206
GPU Variant
N18S-G5
GM206-300-A1
Architecture
Turing
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.7 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
25W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
5.2
Shader Model
6.6
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,706
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
1,025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
35
GTA 5 1080p
-
70