NVIDIA GeForce MX450 vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX450 and Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU 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

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX450

4.7x more core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 43% higher boost clock speed: 1575 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 17% higher pipelines: 896 vs 768
14.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2114 vs 142

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines	896 vs 768
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2114 vs 142

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 100.8 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 12 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt

Launch date	2 Sep 2020 vs 1 Aug 2020
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 100.8 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX450
GPU 2: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

2114

142

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU
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	142

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Generation 12.0
Code name	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1	Tiger Lake GT2
Launch date	1 Aug 2020	2 Sep 2020
Place in performance rating	524	1698
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	10 nm
Pipelines	896	768
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s	105.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million
Compute units		96
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		422.4 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		3.379 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		1.690 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate		26.40 GPixel/s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors	None
Width		IGP
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.1
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5	6.4
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