NVIDIA GeForce MX450 vs AMD Radeon E8950

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX450 and AMD Radeon E8950 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

NVIDIA GeForce MX450

AMD Radeon E8950

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 90% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 58% higher boost clock speed: 1575 MHz vs 1000 MHz
787.5x more texture fill rate: 100.8 GTexel/s vs 128.0 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
Around 90% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 95 Watt
Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 10002 MHz vs 6000 MHz

Launch date	1 Aug 2020 vs 29 September 2015
Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s vs 128.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 95 Watt
Memory clock speed	10002 MHz vs 6000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

2.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 896
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB

Pipelines	2048 vs 896
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX450
GPU 2: AMD Radeon E8950

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	AMD Radeon E8950
PassMark - G3D Mark	3732
PassMark - G2D Mark	304
Geekbench - OpenCL	29173
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6326
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6326
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2029
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		66.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1369.722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		65.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		326.391

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	AMD Radeon E8950
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 3.0
Code name	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1	Amethyst
Launch date	1 Aug 2020	29 September 2015
Place in performance rating	515	734
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	735 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	896	2048
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s	128.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	95 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	5,000 million
Floating-point performance		4,096 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	64.03 GB/s	192.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	10002 MHz	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5, GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
GPU Boost
Optimus