GeForce RTX 4060 Ti vs GT 650M Mac Edition

Place in the ranking	966	34
Place by popularity	not in top-100	15
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	85.07
Power efficiency	2.59	27.24
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GK107	AD106
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	12 July 2012 (12 years ago)	18 May 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores	384	4352
Core clock speed	900 MHz	2310 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2535 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	22,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	160 Watt
Texture fill rate	28.80	344.8
Floating-point processing power	0.6912 TFLOPS	22.06 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	48
TMUs	32	136
Tensor Cores	no data	136
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	34

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	no data	240 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 16-pin

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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1254 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	80.26 GB/s	288.0 GB/s

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	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	3.0	8.9

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.59	59.38
Recency	12 July 2012	18 May 2023
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	8 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	160 Watt

GT 650M Mac Edition has 255.6% lower power consumption.

RTX 4060 Ti, on the other hand, has a 3634.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.