NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 12.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1202 vs 98
  • 4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3299 vs 813
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1913 vs 699
  • 4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3299 vs 813
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1913 vs 699
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 1 May 2010
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1202 vs 98
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3299 vs 813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1913 vs 699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3299 vs 813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1913 vs 699

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP

  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 280 vs 236
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 280 vs 236

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1202
98
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
236
280
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3299
813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1913
699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3299
813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1913
699
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 1202 98
PassMark - G2D Mark 236 280
Geekbench - OpenCL 3788
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 9.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 340.824
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 18.773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 23.111
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2283
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3299 813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1913 699
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2283
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3299 813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1913 699
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 414

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 IGP

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK107 RS880
Launch date 22 March 2012 1 May 2010
Place in performance rating 1215 1216
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 950 MHz
CUDA cores 384
Floating-point performance 652.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 384
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 181 million
Core clock speed 500 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCI
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bus width 128bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3\GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus