Radeon R5 M435 vs GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition and Radeon R5 M435, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

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

R5 M435 outperforms GT 650M Mac Edition by a substantial 33% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking963874
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.42no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK107Jet
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 July 2012 (12 years ago)15 May 2016 (8 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 cores384320
Core clock speed900 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1030 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Wattno data
Texture fill rate28.8020.60
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPS0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3220

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x8

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1254 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth80.26 GB/s36 GB/s

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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
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 2.11
Recency 12 July 2012 15 May 2016
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB

R5 M435 has a 32.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, and a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

The Radeon R5 M435 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition in performance tests.


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