NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 6540G2 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1938 vs 802
2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3926 vs 1597

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 July 2012 vs 14 June 2011
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1938 vs 802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3926 vs 1597

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

Around 25% higher pipelines: 480 vs 384
25.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 802 vs 31.3
22.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1597 vs 70.1

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	480 vs 384
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	802 vs 31.3
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1597 vs 70.1

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6540G2

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1938

802

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3926

1597

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

31.3

802

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

70.1

1597

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 6540G2
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1938	802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3926	1597
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	43.2
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	31.3	802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	70.1	1597

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 6540G2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Terascale 2
Code name	GK107
Launch date	12 July 2012	14 June 2011
Place in performance rating	1526	1529
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	480
Texture fill rate	28.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
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		0