NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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

2494 points
43% significantly better overall score
1734 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points
84% significantly higher Blender score
198.93 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

29848 points
29969 points
0.41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
29000 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
26378 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
29576 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
27321 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586
224th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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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 980 vs GeForce MX450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the GeForce MX450 in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the GeForce MX450.

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