Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics vs GeForce GT 635M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking987not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.87no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGF116Beema
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date22 March 2012 (12 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresUp to 144128
Core clock speedUp to 675 MHz497 MHz
Boost clock speed753 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate16.203.976
Floating-point processing power0.3888 TFLOPS0.1272 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs248

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI Express 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus widthUp to 192bitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidthUp to 43.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
HDMI+-
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolutionUp to 2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray+-
Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 API12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2012 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 100 Watt

GT 635M has 185.7% lower power consumption.

R2 Mobile Graphics, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 635M and Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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