Radeon HD 7950M vs GeForce GT 635M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking994not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.84no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGF116Wimbledon
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date22 March 2012 (12 years ago)24 April 2012 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresUp to 1441280
Core clock speedUp to 675 MHz700 MHz
Boost clock speed753 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,170 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate16.2056.00
Floating-point processing power0.3888 TFLOPS1.792 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs2480

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargelarge
Bus supportPCI Express 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus widthUp to 192bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 43.2 GB/s128.0 GB/s
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 outputs
HDMI+-
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolutionUp to 2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray+-
Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 API12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2012 24 April 2012
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 75 Watt

GT 635M has 114.3% lower power consumption.

HD 7950M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 635M and Radeon HD 7950M. We've got no test results to judge.


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