NVIDIA GeForce 620M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 620M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M 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 - 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 620M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 620M

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 35 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M

Around 50% higher pipelines: 144 vs 96
Around 6% better floating-point performance: 253.4 gflops vs 240.0 gflops

Pipelines	144 vs 96
Floating-point performance	253.4 gflops vs 240.0 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 620M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 620M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M
PassMark - G3D Mark		558
PassMark - G2D Mark		171
Geekbench - OpenCL		2537
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		5.332
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		205.545
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		10.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		22.728
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		800
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1833
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2418
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		800
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1833
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2418

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 620M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GF117	GF116
Launch date	22 March 2012	22 March 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	1461
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	240.0 gflops	253.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	144
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	1,170 million
Boost clock speed		753 MHz
CUDA cores		Up to 144
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12 API
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus