NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps vs AMD FirePro S9170

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code nameHawaiiTU117
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date8 July 2015 (8 years old)25 August 2020 (3 years old)
Current price$149 no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2816896
Core clock speed930 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1275 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt31 Watt
Texture fill rate163.771.40
Floating-point performance5,238 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount32 GB2 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s64 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDAno data7.5

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 8 July 2015 25 August 2020
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 31 Watt

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9170 and GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro S9170 is a workstation card while GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps is a desktop one.


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