AMD Radeon HD 6650M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6650M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6650M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• 2x more pipelines: 480 vs 240
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
• Around 45% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1107 MHz
• 3.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 223 vs 62

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

• 2.2x more core clock speed: 1296 MHz vs 600 MHz
• 3.3x more texture fill rate: 48.2 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
• Around 8% better floating-point performance: 622.1 gflops vs 576.0 gflops
• Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1299 vs 754
• 3.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 21396 vs 5780
• Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2697 vs 1866
• Around 45% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2697 vs 1866

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6650M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	754 1299
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	223 62
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5780 21396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1866 2697
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1866 2697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3334 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3334 3325

Compare specifications (specs)