GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking807not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.21no data
Power efficiency1.69no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameRV770GK106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date25 June 2008 (16 years ago)31 March 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

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 cores800768
Core clock speed625 MHz928 MHz
Number of transistors956 million2,540 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate25.0059.39
Floating-point processing power1 TFLOPS1.425 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4064

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length246 mm145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed993 MHz1350 MHz
Memory bandwidth63.55 GB/s86.4 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 June 2008 31 March 2013
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm

GTX 650 Ti OEM has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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