Radeon R9 290 and GeForce MX450 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce MX450

Radeon R9 290

8336

GeForce MX450

3845

Radeon R9 290

GeForce MX450

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Hawaii

N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2013

August 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1575 MHz

Core clock speed

947 MHz

1395 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,849 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

896

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

25 Watt (12 - 29 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

151.5

100.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5, GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

10000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

64.03 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

Optimus