NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 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

1650 points
1734 points
5% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS
42 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS
27 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
198.93 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

21520 points
29969 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23785 points
29000 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

26093 points
26378 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points
29576 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points
27321 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

230th 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 980M vs GeForce MX450 benchmarks

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

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

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