NVIDIA GeForce MX450 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX450 and NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS 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, 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 9650M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 1250 MHz
10080x more texture fill rate: 100.8 GTexel/s vs 10 GTexel / s
28x more pipelines: 896 vs 32
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 80 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
12.5x more memory clock speed: 10002 MHz vs 800 MHz
13.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3732 vs 270

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 Aug 2020 vs 13 March 2008
Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s vs 10 GTexel / s
Pipelines	896 vs 32
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	10002 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3732 vs 270

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Around 72% lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 50 Watt
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 328 vs 304

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	328 vs 304

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3732

270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

304

328

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	3732	270
PassMark - G2D Mark	304	328
Geekbench - OpenCL	29173
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	2029

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Tesla
Code name	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1	G84
Launch date	1 Aug 2020	13 March 2008
Place in performance rating	515	485
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	1250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	896	32
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	29 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	289 million
CUDA cores		32
Floating-point performance		80 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		large
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	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.03 GB/s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	10002 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5, GDDR6	GDDR2?, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
GPU Boost
Optimus