GeForce MX450 12W vs RTX 4060 Ti Mobile

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
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameAD107TU117S
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release dateno data15 August 2020 (4 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 cores3072896
Core clock speedno data720 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz930 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data12 Watt
Texture fill rate162.752.08
Floating-point processing power10.41 TFLOPS1.667 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs9656

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed16 GB/s1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s80 GB/s

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.97.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 4 nm 12 nm

RTX 4060 Ti Mobile has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 200% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mobile and GeForce MX450 12W. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce MX450 12W is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mobile
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mobile
NVIDIA GeForce MX450 12W
GeForce MX450 12W

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