GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps vs ATI Radeon HD 4270

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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
ArchitectureRV6xx (2008−2010)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRS880MTU117
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2010 (14 years ago)25 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 cores40896
Core clock speed590 MHz1035 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1275 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data31 Watt
Texture fill rateno data71.40
Floating-point processing powerno data2.285 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data56

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data64 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2010 25 August 2020
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm

MX450 30.5W 8Gbps has an age advantage of 10 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 358.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4270 and GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4270 is a notebook card while GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps is a desktop one.


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ATI Radeon HD 4270
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