GeForce MX450 12W vs RTX 4080

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking3not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation29.00no data
Power efficiency19.24no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameAD103TU117S
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date20 September 2022 (2 years ago)15 August 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores9728896
Core clock speed2205 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speed2505 MHz930 MHz
Number of transistors45,900 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)320 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate761.552.08
Floating-point processing power48.74 TFLOPS1.667 TFLOPS
ROPs11232
TMUs30456
Tensor Cores304no data
Ray Tracing Cores76no data

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
Length310 mmno data
Width3-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth716.8 GB/s80 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

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


Recency 20 September 2022 15 August 2020
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 5 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 320 Watt 12 Watt

RTX 4080 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

MX450 12W, on the other hand, has 2566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce MX450 12W. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4080 is a desktop card while GeForce MX450 12W is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
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