NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 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

1446 points
1734 points
19% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

30 FPS
42 FPS
12 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

19 FPS
27 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.38 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
198.93 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

18285 points
29969 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20012 points
29000 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21753 points
26378 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19440 points
29576 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19602 points
27321 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 586
224th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October
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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 970M vs GeForce MX450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce MX450 beats the GeForce GTX 970M in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce MX450 is better than the GeForce GTX 970M.

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