GeForce MX450 12W vs Iris Xe MAX Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking622not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.26no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.1 (2020−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameDG1TU117S
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date31 October 2020 (4 years ago)15 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 cores768896
Core clock speed300 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speed1650 MHz930 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rate79.2052.08
Floating-point processing power2.534 TFLOPS1.667 TFLOPS
ROPs2432
TMUs4856

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 x4PCIe 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 typeLPDDR4XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2133 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth68.26 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 October 2020 15 August 2020
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 10 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 12 Watt

Iris Xe MAX Graphics has an age advantage of 2 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 20% more advanced lithography process.

MX450 12W, on the other hand, has 108.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe MAX Graphics and GeForce MX450 12W. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics
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