AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) and NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 8160x more texture fill rate: 81.60 GTexel/s vs 10 GTexel / s
  • 32x more pipelines: 1024 vs 32
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 80 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 8.8x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 409 vs 328
  • 12.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3301 vs 270
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 April 2018 vs 13 March 2008
Texture fill rate 81.60 GTexel/s vs 10 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 32
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 409 vs 328
PassMark - G3D Mark 3301 vs 270

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

  • Around 6% higher core clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 1175 MHz
  • 30.8x better floating-point performance: 80 gflops vs 2.6 TFLOPs
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 65 Watt
Core clock speed 1250 MHz vs 1175 MHz
Floating-point performance 80 gflops vs 2.6 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 29 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
409
328
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3301
270
Name AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1826
Geekbench - OpenCL 20572
PassMark - G2D Mark 409 328
PassMark - G3D Mark 3301 270

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 560X (Laptop) NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Tesla
Code name Baffin G84
Design Radeon RX 500X Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 3 April 2018 13 March 2008
Place in performance rating 489 486
Type Desktop, Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1275 MHz
Compute units 14/16
Core clock speed 1175 MHz 1250 MHz
Floating-point performance 2.6 TFLOPs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 1024 32
Pixel fill rate 20.40 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 896/1024
Texture fill rate 81.60 GTexel/s 10 GTexel / s
Texture Units 64
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 29 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 289 million
CUDA cores 32

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR2?, GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support