NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
52.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1202 vs 23

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 March 2012 vs 11 October 2004
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1202 vs 23

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 249 vs 239

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	249 vs 239

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1202

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

239

249

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430
PassMark - G3D Mark	1202	23
PassMark - G2D Mark	239	249
Geekbench - OpenCL	3802
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1913
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2283
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3299
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1913
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	414

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Curie
Code name	GK107	C61
Launch date	22 March 2012	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	1188	731
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	950 MHz
CUDA cores	384
Floating-point performance	652.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	384
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million
Core clock speed		425 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
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
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