GeForce MX450 and GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition - video card comparison

GeForce MX450

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1

GM107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

August 2020

March 2015

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1575 MHz

1124 MHz

Core clock speed

1395 MHz

993 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,271 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

4,700 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

896

640

Power consumption (TDP)

25 Watt (12 - 29 Watt TGP)

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

100.8

44.96

Memory type

GDDR5, GDDR6

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

10000 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

64.03 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

7.5

5.0

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

5.1

Vulkan

1.2

1.1.126

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