GeForce GTX 870M vs Radeon HD 6650M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 870M |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6650M |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 870M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 870M | | Radeon HD 6650M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK104 (N15E-GT-A2) | vs | Whistler (Whistler LE) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | vs | 104 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,540 million | vs | 716 million |
| Shaders | 1344 | vs | 480 |
| Compute Units | 7 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 941 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 24 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 112 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 870M | | Radeon HD 6650M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 3072 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 870M | | Radeon HD 6650M | |
|---|
| TDP | 100 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2014 | vs | 4 Jan 2011 |
GeForce GTX 870M
26.35 GP/s
Radeon HD 6650M
4.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 870M
105.40 GT/s
Radeon HD 6650M
14.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 870M
120.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 6650M
25.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 870M
2529.40 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6650M
576.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better