NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6480G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 6480G 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: 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), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6480G

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 444 MHz
Around 60% higher pipelines: 384 vs 240
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
4.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2550 vs 592
Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1938 vs 1082
2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3926 vs 1696

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 July 2012 vs 15 June 2011
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 444 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 240
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2550 vs 592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1938 vs 1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3926 vs 1696

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6480G

13.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 592 vs 43.2
34.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1082 vs 31.3
24.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1696 vs 70.1

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	592 vs 43.2
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1082 vs 31.3
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1696 vs 70.1

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6480G

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2550

592

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1938

1082

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3926

1696

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

43.2

592

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

31.3

1082

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

70.1

1696

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 6480G
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	11.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	342.738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.945
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	14.549
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	22.128
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2550	592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1938	1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3926	1696
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	43.2	592
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	31.3	1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	70.1	1696
Geekbench - OpenCL		673
PassMark - G2D Mark		81
PassMark - G3D Mark		257

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 6480G
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Terascale 2
Code name	GK107	Llano
Launch date	12 July 2012	15 June 2011
Place in performance rating	1525	1528
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	900 MHz	444 MHz
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	384	240
Texture fill rate	28.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	1000 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.26 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5016 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory		1