NVIDIA GeForce MX450 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX450 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 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 Vega 8

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1575 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Around 75% higher pipelines: 896 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
Around 48% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2114 vs 1429

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 Aug 2020 vs 26 Oct 2017
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines	896 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2114 vs 1429

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX450
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

2114

1429

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
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	1429

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Vega
Code name	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1	Vega Raven Ridge
Launch date	1 Aug 2020	26 Oct 2017
Place in performance rating	524	949
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	896	512
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.1
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	64.03 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	10002 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5, GDDR6
Technologies
GPU Boost
Optimus