NVIDIA GeForce MX450 vs AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX450 and AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), 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.

NVIDIA GeForce MX450

AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 91% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 730 MHz
2x more boost clock speed: 1575 MHz vs 780 MHz
5384.6x more texture fill rate: 100.8 GTexel/s vs 18.72 GTexel / s
2.3x more pipelines: 896 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
5.6x more memory clock speed: 10002 MHz vs 1800 MHz
3.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3750 vs 1000
Around 20% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 28933 vs 24076

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 Aug 2020 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 730 MHz
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz vs 780 MHz
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s vs 18.72 GTexel / s
Pipelines	896 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed	10002 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3750 vs 1000
Geekbench - OpenCL	28933 vs 24076

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 359 vs 307

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	359 vs 307

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX450
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3750

1000

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

307

359

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

28933

24076

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	3750	1000
PassMark - G2D Mark	307	359
Geekbench - OpenCL	28933	24076
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	849.116
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	2114

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	AMD Radeon R7 340 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1	Oland
Launch date	1 Aug 2020	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	524	527
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz	780 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	730 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	896	384
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s	18.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	1,040 million
Floating-point performance		599.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	64.03 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	10002 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5, GDDR6	DDR3
Technologies
GPU Boost
Optimus