Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce MX450 25W vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Aug 2020 | Jun 2025 |
| Generation | GeForce MX | Console GPU |
| Type | Mobile | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 720 MHz | 561 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 930 MHz | 1400 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 12GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | LPDDR5X |
| Memory Bus | 64bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 80.00GB/s | 102.4GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 14 | 12 |
| Shading Units | 896 | 1536 |
| TMUs | 56 | 48 |
| ROPs | 32 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 64 KB (per SM) | 128 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 4 MB |
| Tensor Cores | 48 | |
| RT Cores | 12 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.76 GPixel/s | 22.40 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 52.08 GTexel/s | 67.20 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 3.333 TFLOPS | 8.602 TFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) | 1.667 TFLOPS | 4.301 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 52.08 GFLOPS | 2.150 TFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | TU117 | GA10B |
| GPU Variant | N18S-G5 | |
| Architecture | Turing | Ampere |
| Foundry | TSMC | Samsung |
| Process Size | 12 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors | 4.7 billion | Unknown |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 25W | 40W |
| Outputs | No outputs | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | None | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 7.5 | 8.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | 6.8 |