GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs GT 650M Mac Edition

Place in performance ranking	914	347
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	5.10
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GK107	N17P-G1 Max-Q
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	12 July 2012 (11 years ago)	3 January 2018 (6 years ago)
Current price	$50	$1140

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	768
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1151 – 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1290 – 1417 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	40 - 46 Watt
Texture fill rate	28.80	68.02
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops	2,177 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition and GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	4 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5016 MHz	7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	80.26 GB/s	112.1 GB/s
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 Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
G-SYNC support	no data	+

Supported technologies

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

VR Ready

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2.131
CUDA	3.0	6.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	6−7 −867%	58 +867%
1440p	3−4 −867%	29 +867%
4K	2−3 −850%	19 +850%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.58	13.86
Recency	12 July 2012	3 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	4 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	40 Watt