GeForce MX450 25W vs Radeon 530X

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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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameMesoTU117
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 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 cores384896
Core clock speed730 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speed1021 MHz930 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate24.5052.08
Floating-point processing powerno data1.667 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2456

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 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x4
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed4000 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 15 August 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 25 Watt

MX450 25W has an age advantage of 3 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 530X and GeForce MX450 25W. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 530X is a desktop card while GeForce MX450 25W is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon 530X
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