AMD Radeon HD 7650M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7650M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7650M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 35% higher texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
  • 20x more pipelines: 480 vs 24
  • 5.4x better floating-point performance: 432.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1580 MHz
  • 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 440 vs 107
  • Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 57 vs 33
  • Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1949 vs 1458
  • Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1949 vs 1458
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 January 2012 vs 3 March 2010
Texture fill rate 10.8 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 480 vs 24
Floating-point performance 432.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1580 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 440 vs 107
PassMark - G2D Mark 57 vs 33
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1949 vs 1458
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1949 vs 1458

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 20 Watt
  • 2.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 3307 vs 1192
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1774 vs 1733
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1774 vs 1733
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 3307 vs 1192
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1774 vs 1733
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1774 vs 1733

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7650M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
440
107
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
57
33
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1192
3307
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1949
1458
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1733
1774
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1949
1458
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1733
1774
Name AMD Radeon HD 7650M NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M
PassMark - G3D Mark 440 107
PassMark - G2D Mark 57 33
Geekbench - OpenCL 1192 3307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 3.699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 220.859
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.375
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 44.624
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1042
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1949 1458
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1733 1774
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1042
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1949 1458
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1733 1774
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 680

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7650M NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Thames GT216
Launch date 7 January 2012 3 March 2010
Place in performance rating 1515 1517
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 550 MHz
Core clock speed 450 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 432.0 gflops 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 480 24
Texture fill rate 10.8 GTexel / s 8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 486 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1580 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

HybridPower
PCI-E 2.0