AMD Radeon HD 7650M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7650M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 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) 4 month(s) later
• Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 6.0 billion / sec
• 5x more pipelines: 480 vs 96
• 2.3x better floating-point performance: 432.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
• Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 23 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• 2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
• Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 440 vs 394
• Around 36% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 220.859 vs 162.162
• 3.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 44.624 vs 12.306
• Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1042 vs 737
• Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1949 vs 1731
• Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1042 vs 737
• Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1949 vs 1731

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

• 2.2x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 450 MHz
• Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 88 vs 57
• Around 33% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1583 vs 1192
• Around 17% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 4.329 vs 3.699
• Around 14% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.426 vs 0.375
• Around 68% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2906 vs 1733
• Around 68% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2906 vs 1733

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7650M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	440 394
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	57 88
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	1192 1583
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.699 4.329
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	220.859 162.162
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.375 0.426
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	44.624 12.306
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1042 737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1949 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1733 2906
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1042 737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1949 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1733 2906

Compare specifications (specs)