Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) vs GeForce 9650M GT

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot rated1150
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureG9x (2007−2010)GCN 1.1 (2014)
GPU code nameNB9P-GTBeema/Mullins
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date19 August 2008 (15 years ago)29 April 2014 (10 years ago)
Current price$49 no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32128
CUDA cores32no data
Core clock speed550 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors314 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Wattno data
Texture fill rate8.800no data
Floating-point performance84.8 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce 9650M GT and Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-IIno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR2, GDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsno data
Maximum VGA resolution1920x1200no data

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/Ano data
CUDA+no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

9650M GT 1306
+10.9%
R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) 1178

GeForce 9650M GT outperforms Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) by 11% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 August 2008 29 April 2014
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9650M GT and Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L). We've got no test results to judge.


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