RTX A500 vs GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Place in the ranking	963	310
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.42	20.06
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GK107	GA107
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	12 July 2012 (12 years ago)	10 November 2021 (3 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 cores	384	2048
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1440 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1770 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	60 Watt
Texture fill rate	28.80	113.3
Floating-point processing power	0.6912 TFLOPS	7.25 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	32
TMUs	32	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

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
Width	no data	1-slot
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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	4 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1254 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	80.26 GB/s	112.0 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

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	8.6

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	17.56
Recency	12 July 2012	10 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	4 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	45 Watt	60 Watt

GT 650M Mac Edition has 33.3% lower power consumption.

RTX A500, on the other hand, has a 1004.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX A500 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition is a notebook card while RTX A500 is a workstation one.

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