NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6470M

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1164not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code nameSeymour XTNB9P-GT
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 January 2011 (13 years old)19 August 2008 (15 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$569.99 no data
Current price$201 (0.4x MSRP)$49
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

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 cores16032
CUDA coresno data32
Core clock speed700 / 750 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors370 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data23 Watt
Texture fill rate5.6008.800
Floating-point performance224 gflops84.8 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6470M and GeForce 9650M GT compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. 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 sizeno datamedium sized
Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-II

Memory

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 typeDDR3GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s25.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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
Maximum VGA resolutionno data1920x1200

API support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

HD 6470M 227
+65.7%
9650M GT 137

Radeon HD 6470M outperforms GeForce 9650M GT by 66% in Passmark.

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

HD 6470M 1706
+30.6%
9650M GT 1306

Radeon HD 6470M outperforms GeForce 9650M GT by 31% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 6 January 2011 19 August 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6470M and GeForce 9650M GT. We've got no test results to judge.


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