GeForce 8200 vs GT 650M Mac Edition

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition with GeForce 8200, including specs and performance data.

GT 650M Mac Edition
2012
512 MB GDDR5, 45 Watt
1.59
+298%

GT 650M Mac Edition outperforms 8200 by a whopping 298% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking9631254
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.420.69
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGK107C78
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date12 July 2012 (12 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 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 cores38416
Core clock speed900 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate28.804.000
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPS0.0384 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs328

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1254 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth80.26 GB/sno data

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 outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA3.0-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.59 0.40
Recency 12 July 2012 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 40 Watt

GT 650M Mac Edition has a 297.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

GeForce 8200, on the other hand, has 12.5% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 8200 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition is a notebook card while GeForce 8200 is a desktop one.


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