NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7650A

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Combined performance score

HD 7650A
1.48

GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition outperforms Radeon HD 7650A by 7% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking934911
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.23no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameOnegaGK107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 January 2012 (12 years old)12 July 2012 (11 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$262 no data
Current price$46 (0.2x MSRP)$50
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 cores480384
Core clock speed600 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors716 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate14.4028.80
Floating-point performance576.0 gflops691.2 gflops

Size and 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-A (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
WidthMXM Moduleno data

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1800 MHz5016 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s80.26 GB/s

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

API support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDAno data3.0

Gaming performance

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

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 1.48 1.59
Recency 5 January 2012 12 July 2012
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 45 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7650A and GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition. The differences in performance seem too small.


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