GeForce MX450 vs Quadro P400

Place in performance ranking	641	428
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.79	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	GP107	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	7 February 2017 (7 years ago)	1 August 2020 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$119.99	no data
Current price	$73 (0.6x MSRP)	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	256	896
Core clock speed	1228 MHz	1395 MHz
Boost clock speed	1252 MHz	1575 MHz
Number of transistors	3,300 million	4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	25 Watt (12 - 29 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate	20.03	100.8
Floating-point performance	679.9 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Quadro P400 and GeForce MX450 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x4
Length	145 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	GDDR5	GDDR5, GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4008 MHz	10000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	32.06 GB/s	64.03 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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

3x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

Supported technologies

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

Optimus

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2
CUDA	6.1	7.5

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro P400 4.25

GeForce MX450 9.67
+128%

GeForce MX450 outperforms Quadro P400 by 128% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Quadro P400 1641

GeForce MX450 3735
+128%

GeForce MX450 outperforms Quadro P400 by 128% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

Quadro P400 5588

GeForce MX450 29105
+421%

GeForce MX450 outperforms Quadro P400 by 421% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.