NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) and AMD Radeon HD 6650A 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 10x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
  • 4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 480
  • 7.6x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 576.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Launch date 21 September 2015 vs 19 April 2011
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 480
Floating-point performance 4,358 gflops vs 576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6650A

  • 4.4x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
  • 257.1x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) AMD Radeon HD 6650A
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4053
PassMark - G2D Mark 418
PassMark - G3D Mark 836

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name GM204 Onega
Launch date 21 September 2015 19 April 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $395.82
Place in performance rating 562 348
Price now $605.06
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 20.91

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1216 MHz
CUDA cores 2048
Floating-point performance 4,358 gflops 576.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 2048 480
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec 14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100-200 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 716 million
Core clock speed 600 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size large
SLI options 1

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB / s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
BatteryBoost
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Surround