NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 550 MHz
Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 28.8 GTexel / s vs 2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
24x more pipelines: 384 vs 2x 8
15.4x better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 2x 22.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
3.6x more memory clock speed: 5016 MHz vs 1400 MHz
6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3926 vs 658

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 July 2012 vs 20 January 2009
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.8 GTexel / s vs 2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines	384 vs 2x 8
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops vs 2x 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed	5016 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3926 vs 658

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 45 Watt
9.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 658 vs 70.1

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 45 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	658 vs 70.1

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3926

658

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

70.1

658

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3926	658
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	43.2
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	31.3
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	70.1	658
PassMark - G3D Mark		121
PassMark - G2D Mark		120

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla
Code name	GK107	G98
Launch date	12 July 2012	20 January 2009
Place in performance rating	1522	1519
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$131.43
Price now		$80.99
Value for money (0-100)		1.61
Technical info
Core clock speed	900 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops	2x 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	384	2x 8
Texture fill rate	28.8 GTexel / s	2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.26 GB / s	2x 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	2x 64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5016 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3