AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Sky 500 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. 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 - Video Composition (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).

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Sky 500

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
7.6x more texture fill rate: 76 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
40x more pipelines: 1280 vs 32
30.4x better floating-point performance: 2,432 gflops vs 80 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
6x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 800 MHz
17.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4709 vs 270
Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 572 vs 328

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 March 2013 vs 13 March 2008
Texture fill rate	76 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 32
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4709 vs 270
PassMark - G2D Mark	572 vs 328

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 950 MHz
5.2x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 150 Watt

Core clock speed	1250 MHz vs 950 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Sky 500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4709

270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

572

328

Name	AMD Radeon Sky 500	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	4709	270
PassMark - G2D Mark	572	328
Geekbench - OpenCL	74902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	54.669
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1096.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	89.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	247.642
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5116
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	5116

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Sky 500	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Pitcairn	G84
Launch date	27 March 2013	13 March 2008
Place in performance rating	506	507
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	950 MHz	1250 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	1280	32
Texture fill rate	76 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	29 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	289 million
CUDA cores		32
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	1
Dual-link DVI support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Form factor	Full Height / Full Length
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	242 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	154 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2?, GDDR3
Shared memory		0