Radeon RX 560X Mobile vs R7 450 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated419
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data12.14
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameCape VerdePolaris 21
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date30 June 2016 (8 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 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 cores5121024
Core clock speed925 MHz1275 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1202 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate29.6081.60
Floating-point processing power0.9472 TFLOPS2.611 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs3264

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1450 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s92.8 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 DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2No outputs
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)6.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.1 (1.2)2.0
Vulkan1.2.1701.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2016 11 April 2018
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

RX 560X Mobile has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 450 OEM and Radeon RX 560X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 450 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon RX 560X Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R7 450 OEM
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