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NVIDIA GeForce MX450

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 is a graphics card released on August 1, 2020, built on the Turing architecture using a 12 nm process. It has 896 shading units, 2 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 64-bit bus, 80.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 930 MHz and a 30 W board power rating. It scores 3,708 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.2.

TuringTU117 (N18S-LP-A1) (N18S-G5-A1)12 nm

10/10 key specs recorded · 43 facts

Depth: 33 recorded fields, 7 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified August 11, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NanoReview (Firecrawl extract), NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 10 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark NanoReview (Firecrawl extract)NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

896cores

14 compute units

Memory

2 GB

GDDR6 · 64-bit

Boost clock

930 MHz

720 MHz base

Board power

30 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 scores 3,708 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 76% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #670), measured across 2,015 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 305.

PassMark G3D Mark

3,708

Rank #670
Faster than 76% of 2,658 GPUs
2,015 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 54 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 59.6% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 13 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 54.4% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 25 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 55.1% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 23 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 57.4% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 1,861 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 62.7% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce MX450 averages DirectX 9 54 fps, DirectX 10 13 fps, DirectX 11 25 fps, DirectX 12 23 fps and GPU Compute 1,861 ops/s, across 2,015 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

First benchmarked 2020-10-02

Samples 2,015

PassMark listing (collected 2026-09-30)

Graphics processor

Architecture Turing

Codename TU117 (N18S-LP-A1) (N18S-G5-A1)

Chip Not recorded

Process node 12 nm

Transistors 4,700 M

Die size 200 mm²

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 is based on the Turing architecture, uses the TU117 (N18S-LP-A1) (N18S-G5-A1) graphics processor, is manufactured on a 12 nm process, contains 4,700 million transistors and has a die size of 200 mm².

Shader configuration

Shading units 896

Compute units 14

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 56

Render output units (ROPs) 32

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 has 896 shading units, 14 compute units, 56 texture mapping units and 32 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce MX450. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce MX450.

Clock speeds

Base clock 720 MHz

Boost clock 930 MHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock 1.25 GHz

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 runs at a base clock of 720 MHz and boosts to 930 MHz.

Memory

Size 2 GB

Type GDDR6

Bus width 64-bit

Bandwidth 80.0 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 is equipped with 2 GB of GDDR6 memory, uses a 64-bit memory bus and delivers 80.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 has a board power rating of 30 W.

Board power (TDP) 30 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface Not recorded

Market

Launched August 1, 2020

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 was released on August 1, 2020.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 3,708

PassMark G2D 305

Rank #670

Samples 2,015

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.2.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.2

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA GeForce MX450. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce MX450.

Media engine

Feex holds no codec support statement for the NVIDIA GeForce MX450. It does not support hardware encode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and AV1 and decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9.

Hardware video codec support of the NVIDIA GeForce MX450
Codec	Encode	Decode
H.264 (AVC)	Not supported	Not supported
HEVC (H.265)	Not supported	Not supported
AV1	Not supported	Not supported
VP9	Not stated by the vendor	Not supported

supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor

Naming and aliases

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA GeForce MX450 (Mobile).

Other names (PassMark) NVIDIA GeForce MX450 (Mobile)

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce MX450 have?

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 has 2 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 64-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 80.0 GB/s.

How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce MX450 use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 has a board power rating of 30 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce MX450?

The NVIDIA GeForce MX450 scores 3,708 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 76% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #670. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 23 fps.