GeForce GT 650M and Radeon HD 8950M - video card comparison
GeForce GT 650M
Radeon HD 8950M
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
N13E-GE
Saturn
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
May 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
Up to 900 MHz
1075 MHz
CUDA cores
384
-
Floating-point performance
652.8 gflops
1,651 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
768
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
Up to 27.2 billion/sec
51.60
Memory type
DDR3\GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 - 4000 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 80.0 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
Up to 2048x1536
-
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
Optimus
+
-