NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 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 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 3.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 112
  • 2.1x better floating-point performance: 652.8 gflops vs 308 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • 3.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1202 vs 381
  • 5.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 239 vs 41
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 3 March 2009
Pipelines 384 vs 112
Floating-point performance 652.8 gflops vs 308 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1202 vs 381
PassMark - G2D Mark 239 vs 41

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

  • Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3085 vs 1913
  • Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3085 vs 1913
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3085 vs 1913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3085 vs 1913

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1202
381
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
239
41
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1913
3085
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1913
3085
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1202 381
PassMark - G2D Mark 239 41
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 3085
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2283
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3299
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1913 3085
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 414

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK107 G92
Launch date 22 March 2012 3 March 2009
Place in performance rating 1188 1457
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 950 MHz
CUDA cores 384 112
Floating-point performance 652.8 gflops 308 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 384 112
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 65 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 754 million
Core clock speed 1375 MHz
Gigaflops 462
Texture fill rate 31 billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs DisplayPortSingle Link DVIDual Link DVIVGALVDSHDMI
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536 2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0 PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized large
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bus width 128bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3\GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Memory bandwidth 61 GB / s

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
PureVideo HD