NVIDIA GeForce MX450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX450 and NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a 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

NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 80 nm
47.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3749 vs 79

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 Aug 2020 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3749 vs 79

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 50 Watt

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	308 vs 307

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3749

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

307

308

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
PassMark - G3D Mark	3749	79
PassMark - G2D Mark	307	308
Geekbench - OpenCL	28928
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	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Tesla
Code name	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1	C78
Launch date	1 Aug 2020	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	536	533
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	896
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.1	10.0
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
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