GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition vs Radeon E8950

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon E8950 and GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

Radeon E8950
2015
8 GB GDDR5, 95 Watt
14.17
+791%

E8950 outperforms GT 650M Mac Edition by a whopping 791% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking369963
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.232.42
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameAmethystGK107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 September 2015 (9 years ago)12 July 2012 (12 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 cores2048384
Core clock speed735 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,000 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate128.028.80
Floating-point processing power4.096 TFLOPS0.6912 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs12832

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1254 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s80.26 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.0

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 14.17 1.59
Recency 29 September 2015 12 July 2012
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 45 Watt

Radeon E8950 has a 791.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, and a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GT 650M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 111.1% lower power consumption.

The Radeon E8950 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition in performance tests.


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