Component comparison

GeForce MX450 vs GeForce RTX 4090

GeForce MX450 vs GeForce RTX 4090 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce MX450
  • + Die size (mm²) (+409 mm²)
B GeForce RTX 4090
  • + Release year (+3)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+14 GB)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+1000 MHz)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+954 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+320 bit)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+95 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-8 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+71,600M)
  • + CUDA cores (+15488)
  • + TMUs (+448)
  • + ROPs (+144)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+79.35 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+393.10 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+1201.80 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+14.3)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+23333)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+19351)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+41466)
  • + Normalized score (+30.3)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce MX450
Component B
GeForce RTX 4090
Release year 2020 2023 (+3)
VRAM (GB) 2 GB 16 GB (+14 GB)
Memory type GDDR5, GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1250 MHz 2250 MHz (+1000 MHz)
Bandwidth (GB/s) 80 GB/s 1034 GB/s (+954 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 64 bit 384 bit (+320 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 25 W 120 W (+95 W)
Lithography (nm) 12 nm 4 nm (-8 nm)
Transistors (M) 4,700M 76,300M (+71,600M)
Die size (mm²) 200 mm² (+409 mm²) 609 mm²
Base clock (MHz) 1395 MHz —
Boost clock (MHz) 1575 MHz —
CUDA cores 896 16,384 (+15488)
TMUs 64 512 (+448)
ROPs 32 176 (+144)
RT cores — 128
Tensor cores — 512
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 3.23 TFLOPS 82.58 TFLOPS (+79.35 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 50.40 GPixel/s 443.50 GPixel/s (+393.10 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 88.20 GTexel/s 1290.00 GTexel/s (+1201.80 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 27.6 41.9 (+14.3)
PassMark (overall) 3,714 27,047 (+23333)
3DMark Time Spy 1,900 21,251 (+19351)
3DMark Fire Strike 4,725 46,191 (+41466)
Geekbench OpenCL 28,541 —
Geekbench Vulkan 27,321 —
Normalized score 44.7 75.0 (+30.3)

Only in component B

DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce MX450 GeForce RTX 4090 Delta
Battlefield 5 49 FPS 170 FPS 246.9% (B)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Counter-Strike 2 88 FPS 300 FPS 240.9% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 32 FPS 147 FPS 359.4% (B)
Dota 2 88 FPS 199 FPS 126.1% (B)
Far Cry 5 34 FPS 173 FPS 408.8% (B)
Fortnite 61 FPS 300 FPS 391.8% (B)
Forza Horizon 4 35 FPS 250 FPS 614.3% (B)
Forza Horizon 5 34 FPS 281 FPS 726.5% (B)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Metro Exodus 10 FPS 156 FPS 1460% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Resident Evil 4 Remake 16 FPS 218 FPS 1262.5% (B)
The Witcher 3 33 FPS 394 FPS 1093.9% (B)
Valorant 85 FPS 350 FPS 311.8% (B)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 4090 wins 19 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).