NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1419 points
1734 points
22% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

29 FPS
42 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS
24 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS
27 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS
Identical
17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points
198.93 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points
29969 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points
29000 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points
26378 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points
29576 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points
27321 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586
224th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce MX450 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce MX450 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce MX450 over the GeForce GTX 960.

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