Radeon HD 3550 and GeForce MX450 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 3550

GeForce MX450

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

RV620

N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

August 2008

August 2020

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

-

1575 MHz

Core clock speed

594 MHz

1395 MHz

Floating-point performance

47.52 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

181 million

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

40

896

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

25 Watt (12 - 29 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

2.376

100.8

Memory type

DDR2

GDDR5, GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

2 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

792 MHz

10000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

6.336 GB/s

64.03 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DisplayPort

No outputs

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

7.5

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

Optimus

-

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