AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6850M NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.26GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Lower TDP (45W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850M +56%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

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GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jul 2012

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1254 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

80.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

28.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

GK107

Granville PRO

GPU Variant

N13P-GT-W-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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