GeForce MX450

Graphics Processor: TU117
Cores: 896
TMUs / ROPs: 56 / 32

Review

Gaming

Workstation

AI/ML

Energy Efficiency

NanoReview Final Score

Compare GeForce MX450 with other GPUs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5	17 10 - -
The Witcher 3	13 12 10 -
Counter-Strike 2	34 18 16 -
Far Cry 6	24 21 14 -
Hogwarts Legacy	18 10 9 -
CoD: Modern Warfare III	30 21 13 11
Ghost of Tsushima	11 - - -
Cyberpunk 2077	- - - -
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	22 17 10 -

Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High	20
1080p Ultra	13
1440p Ultra	10
4K Ultra	-
Margin of Error	Medium

Test in Benchmarks

Performance tests in graphics benchmarks and applications

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games

Steel Nomad Lite Score

1148

Time Spy	2120
Fire Strike	5269
Wild Life Extreme	4251
Night Raid	26173

Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)

GB6 Compute Score

34221

Background Blur	65.7 img/sec
Face Detection	33.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection	1.01 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection	1.39 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur	1.61 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching	0.48 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching	176 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics	5012.4 FPS
API	OpenCL

Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features

G3D Mark Score

3710

G2D Mark	304
DirectX 11	25 FPS
DirectX 12	23 FPS
GPU Compute	1860 Ops/s

Sources: PassMark [5] – 1942 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling

Blender GPU

195.26

Sources: Blender [9] – 25 samples

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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision

GB6 ML Single Precision

4394

GB6 ML Half Precision

4387

GB6 ML Quantized

3246

Image Classification (SP)	1911
Image Segmentation (HP)	2536
Image Super Resolution (Q)	4111
Face Detection (HP)	5175
Pose Estimation (Q)	13374
Text Classification (SP)	1514
Machine Translation (HP)	1481
Object Detection (SP)	2070
Depth Estimation (Q)	7813
Style Transfer (SP)	36156
Framework	ONNX
Backend	DirectML

Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Detailed technical specifications of the GeForce MX450

General

Vendor	Nvidia
Build	Discrete
Released	August 25, 2020
Case	Laptop
Purpose	Gaming
Segment	Mid-range
Architecture	Turing
GPU Codename	TU117
Successor	- GeForce MX550
Recommended CPU	- Intel Core i5 11300H or above

Laptop GPU ranking - 135th place

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock	720-1395 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock	930-1575 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units	896
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs)	56
Render Output Units (ROPs)	32
Compute Units (Pipelines)	14
Tensor Cores	No
Ray-tracing Cores	No
L1 Cache	64KB per cluster
L2 Cache	512KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle	2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate	30-50 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate	52-88 GTexel/s

FLOPS (FP32)

1.7-2.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4
TGP	10-30 W (configurable)
Manufacturing	TSMC
Fabrication Process	12 nm
Die Size	200 mm²
Transistor Count	4.7 billion
Transistor Density	23.5 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type	GDDR6
Memory Size	2 GB
Memory Clock	1250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed	10000 Mbps
Bus	64-bit

Memory Bandwidth

80 GB/s

API

DirectX	12
Vulkan	1.2
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
CUDA	7.5
Ray Tracing	No
DLSS	No
DisplayPort	1.4

Competitors

1. GeForce MX450 vs Radeon 890M