Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5 vs GeForce MX450 N18S-G5

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameN17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1Banks
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 August 2020 (4 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 years ago)

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 cores1024320
Core clock speedno data1030 MHz
Number of transistorsno data690 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data20.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data20

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8

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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data36 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXDirectX 12_112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5 (5.1)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan-1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2020 18 April 2017
Chip lithography 10 nm 28 nm

MX450 N18S-G5 has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce MX450 N18S-G5 and Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce MX450 N18S-G5
GeForce MX450 N18S-G5
AMD Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5
Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5

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