GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce MX450 N18S-G5 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960
GeForce MX450 N18S-G5
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
GM206
N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
August 2020
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
-
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
10 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
-
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
-
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX 12_1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.4
-
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
-
+