[FPS Benchmarks] Shadow Of The Tomb Raider on NVIDIA GeForce MX450 (GDDR6/25W) and MX350 (25W) – MX450 is way faster

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider has good graphics quality and the gameplay isn’t that different compared to the predecessor which is Rise Of The Tomb Raider Raider. You can expect the usual stuff like climbing mountains, raiding tombs, solving riddles, and a lot of gunfights.

Now, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider isn’t a light game especially if you want to bump the graphics settings. For gamers on a budget, the presets up to Medium aren’t that heavy, so most not-so-expensive dGPUs can run this game at least on the Lowest quality. For this comparison, we have picked two good inexpensive graphics cards – the NVIDIA GeForce MX450 (GDDR6/25W) and MX350 (25W).

Don’t forget to take a look at our Top 100 Best Laptops for Shadow of the Tomb Raider list.

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GeForce MX450 and MX350 variants

  GeForce MX450 (GDDR6/25W) GeForce MX350 (25W)
Architecture Turing Pascal
GPU chip TU117 GP107
Shader units 896 (+40%) 640
ROPs 16 16
Base Clock (MHz) 1395 (+3%) 1354
Boost clock (MHz) 1575 (+7%) 1468
Memory clock (MHz) 1250 1752 (+40%)
Memory size (MB) 2048 2048
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory bus width (bit) 64 64
TGP (Total Graphics Power) 25 25
DirectX version 12.1 12.1
Technology 12nm 14nm
RTX capabilities No No
Release date 08.2020 02.2021
Detailed specs Link Link

Synthetic benchmarks

Results are from the 3DMark: Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (higher the score, the better)

Results are from the Unigine Superposition benchmark (higher the score, the better)


Gaming tests and gameplay videos (ext. monitor)

 

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018) Full HD, Lowest (Check settings) Full HD, Medium (Check settings) Full HD, High (Check settings) Full HD, Highest (Check settings)
GeForce MX450 (GDDR6/25W) 71 fps (+61%) 36 fps (+89%) 28 fps 16 fps
GeForce MX350 (25W) 44 fps 19 fps




Verdict

It seems that the NVIDIA GeForce MX450 (GDDR6/25W) is the clear winner. For example, it offers 61% more FPS on the Lowest quality and 89% higher FPS on Medium compared to the GeForce MX350 (25W). The latter is fast enough for 44 FPS on Lowest which is fine for this kind of video card.

Don’t forget to take a look at our Top 100 Best Laptops for Shadow of the Tomb Raider list.

All laptops equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce MX450 (GDDR6, 25W / 28.5W)

All laptops equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce MX350 (25W)

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