NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 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 Quadro FX 4600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
2.8x better floating-point performance: 652.8 gflops vs 230.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 134 Watt
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 768 MB
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1202 vs 426
Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 236 vs 124

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 March 2012 vs 5 March 2007
Pipelines	384 vs 96
Floating-point performance	652.8 gflops vs 230.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 134 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 768 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1202 vs 426
PassMark - G2D Mark	236 vs 124

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3230 vs 1913
Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3230 vs 1913

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3230 vs 1913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3230 vs 1913

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1202

426

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

236

124

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1913

3230

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1913

3230

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
PassMark - G3D Mark	1202	426
PassMark - G2D Mark	236	124
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1913	3230
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2283
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3299
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1913	3230
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	414

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla
Code name	GK107	G80
Launch date	22 March 2012	5 March 2007
Place in performance rating	1215	1218
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,999
Price now		$143.51
Value for money (0-100)		5.45
Technical info
Boost clock speed	950 MHz
CUDA cores	384
Floating-point performance	652.8 gflops	230.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	384	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	134 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	681 million
Core clock speed		500 MHz
Texture fill rate		12 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.0
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	768 MB
Memory bus width	128bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3\GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Memory bandwidth		67.2 GB / s
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus