NVIDIA GeForce MX450 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX450 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 30% higher boost clock speed: 1575 MHz vs 1216 MHz
700x more texture fill rate: 100.8 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
4x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
1428.9x more memory clock speed: 10002 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Launch date	1 Aug 2020 vs 21 September 2015
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz vs 1216 MHz
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s vs 144 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed	10002 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

2.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 896
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 92% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4053 vs 2114

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2048 vs 896
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053 vs 2114

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX450
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

2114

4053

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (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	4053

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX450	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1	GM204
Launch date	1 Aug 2020	21 September 2015
Place in performance rating	524	304
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Launch price (MSRP)		$395.82
Price now		$605.06
Value for money (0-100)		20.91
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1575 MHz	1216 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	896	2048
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel/s	144 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	100-200 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		2048
Floating-point performance		4,358 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		1
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
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	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR5, GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
GPU Boost
Optimus
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
BatteryBoost
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
SLI
Surround