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    GeForce GT 650M vs Radeon HD 8790M

    GeForce GT 650M
    Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 22 Mar 2012
    GeForce GT 650M
    Radeon HD 8790M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 1 Apr 2013
    Radeon HD 8790M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GT 650M
      100%
    • Radeon HD 8790M
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GT 650M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8790M

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Mantle
    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    No clear winner declared

    We have no data to declare a winner at this time.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GT 650MRadeon HD 8790M
    GPU NameGK107 (N13P-GT-A2)vsMars (Mars XTX)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size118 mm²vs77 mm²
    Transistors1,270 millionvs1,040 million
    Shaders384vs384
    Compute Units2vs6
    Core clock850 MHzvs850 MHz
    ROPs16vs8
    TMUs32vs24

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GT 650MRadeon HD 8790M
    Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective    		vs1000 MHz
    4000 MHz effective
    Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GT 650MRadeon HD 8790M
    TDP45 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date22 Mar 2012vs1 Apr 2013

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GT 650M
      6.80 GP/s
    • Radeon HD 8790M
      7.20 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GT 650M
      27.20 GT/s
    • Radeon HD 8790M
      21.60 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GT 650M
      28.80 GB/s
    • Radeon HD 8790M
      64.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GT 650M
      652.80 GFLOPs
    • Radeon HD 8790M
      691.20 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GT 650M
      2140
    • Radeon HD 8790M
      2130

    Points (higher is better)

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