RTX A2000 vs GeForce MX450 N18S-G5
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 179 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | no data | 88.43 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 34.76 |
| Architecture | Turing (2018−2022) | Ampere (2020−2024) |
| GPU code name | N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1 | GA106 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 1 August 2020 (4 years ago) | 10 August 2021 (3 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | no data | $449 |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1024 | 3328 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 562 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1200 MHz |
| Number of transistors | no data | 12,000 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 10 nm | 8 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 70 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | no data | 124.8 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 7.987 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | no data | 48 |
| TMUs | no data | 104 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 104 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 26 |
Form factor & 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).
| Interface | no data | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Length | no data | 167 mm |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
VRAM capacity and type
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 type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | no data | 6 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 192 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 5000 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 288.0 GB/s |
| Shared memory | - | - |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
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 Connectors | no data | 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| Optimus | + | - |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | DirectX 12_1 | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | no data | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | no data | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | no data | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | - | 1.3 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| DLSS | - | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 August 2020 | 10 August 2021 |
| Chip lithography | 10 nm | 8 nm |
RTX A2000 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between GeForce MX450 N18S-G5 and RTX A2000. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that GeForce MX450 N18S-G5 is a notebook graphics card while RTX A2000 is a workstation one.
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