Component comparison
GeForce MX450 vs RTX A500
GeForce MX450 vs RTX A500 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
GeForce MX450
- + Boost clock (MHz) (+38 MHz)
- + Energy efficiency (+7.3)
- + Normalized score (+28.9)
B
RTX A500
- + Release year (+1)
- + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
- + Memory clock (MHz) (+500 MHz)
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+32 GB/s)
- + TGP / TDP (W) (+35 W)
- + Lithography (nm) (-4 nm)
- + CUDA cores (+1152)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+4.02 TFLOPS)
- + PassMark (overall) (+2824)
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
GeForce MX450
|
Component B
RTX A500
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2020 | 2021 (+1) |
| VRAM (GB) | 2 GB | 4 GB (+2 GB) |
| Memory type | GDDR5, GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | 1250 MHz | 1750 MHz (+500 MHz) |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 80 GB/s | 112 GB/s (+32 GB/s) |
| Memory bus (bit) | 64 bit | 64 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | 25 W | 60 W (+35 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 (+38 MHz) | 1537 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 896 | 2,048 (+1152) |
| TMUs | 64 | 64 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| RT cores | — | 16 |
| Tensor cores | — | 64 |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 3.23 TFLOPS | 7.25 TFLOPS (+4.02 TFLOPS) |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | 50.40 GPixel/s | — |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | 88.20 GTexel/s | — |
| Energy efficiency | 27.6 (+7.3) | 20.2 |
| PassMark (overall) | 3,714 | 6,538 (+2824) |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 1,900 | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 4,725 | — |
| Geekbench OpenCL | 28,541 | — |
| Geekbench Vulkan | 27,321 | — |
| Normalized score | 44.7 (+28.9) | 15.8 |
Only in component B
DLSS
ReBAR
In both
CUDA
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | GeForce MX450 | RTX A500 | 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 A500 wins 9 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).