NVIDIA GeForce MX450 vs AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX450 and AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop) 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 RX 480 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 1120 MHz
Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1575 MHz vs 1266 MHz
649.9x more texture fill rate: 100.8 GTexel/s vs 155.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 150 Watt
Around 43% higher memory clock speed: 10002 MHz vs 7000 MHz

Launch date	1 Aug 2020 vs 4 August 2016
Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 1120 MHz
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz vs 1266 MHz
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s vs 155.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	10002 MHz vs 7000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)

2.6x more pipelines: 2304 vs 896
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Pipelines	2304 vs 896
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX450
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	AMD Radeon RX 480 (Laptop)
PassMark - G3D Mark	3750
PassMark - G2D Mark	307
Geekbench - OpenCL	28933
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 RX 480 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 4.0
Code name	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1	Ellesmere
Launch date	1 Aug 2020	4 August 2016
Place in performance rating	524	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$450
Price now		$299.99
Value for money (0-100)		30.62
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz	1266 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	1120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	896	2304
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s	155.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	5,700 million
Compute units		36
Floating-point performance		5.8 TFLOPs
GPU Power		110 Watt
Stream Processors		2304
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bridgeless CrossFire
Laptop size		large
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	64.03 GB/s	224 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	10002 MHz	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5, GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
GPU Boost
Optimus
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore