Component comparison

GeForce MX450 vs RTX A1000

GeForce MX450 vs RTX A1000 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce MX450

Components are close in specs

B RTX A1000
  • + Release year (+4)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+6 GB)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+250 MHz)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+144 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+25 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-4 nm)
  • + CUDA cores (+1408)
  • + TMUs (+8)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+3.51 TFLOPS)
  • + Energy efficiency (+12.3)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+7039)
  • + Geekbench OpenCL (+25103)
  • + Geekbench Vulkan (+23123)
  • + Normalized score (+12.5)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce MX450
Component B
RTX A1000
Release year 2020 2024 (+4)
VRAM (GB) 2 GB 8 GB (+6 GB)
Memory type GDDR5, GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1250 MHz 1500 MHz (+250 MHz)
Bandwidth (GB/s) 80 GB/s 224 GB/s (+144 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 64 bit 128 bit (+64 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 25 W 50 W (+25 W)
Lithography (nm) 12 nm 8 nm (-4 nm)
Transistors (M) 4,700M —
Die size (mm²) 200 mm² —
Base clock (MHz) 1395 MHz —
Boost clock (MHz) 1575 MHz —
CUDA cores 896 2,304 (+1408)
TMUs 64 72 (+8)
ROPs 32 32
RT cores — 18
Tensor cores — 72
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 3.23 TFLOPS 6.74 TFLOPS (+3.51 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 50.40 GPixel/s —
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 88.20 GTexel/s —
Energy efficiency 27.6 39.9 (+12.3)
PassMark (overall) 3,714 10,753 (+7039)
3DMark Time Spy 1,900 —
3DMark Fire Strike 4,725 —
Geekbench OpenCL 28,541 53,644 (+25103)
Geekbench Vulkan 27,321 50,444 (+23123)
Normalized score 44.7 57.2 (+12.5)

Only in component B

DLSS ReBAR

In both

CUDA

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce MX450 RTX A1000 Delta
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈

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

Based on the comparison: RTX A1000 wins 15 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).