ATI Radeon X1600 vs GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition with Radeon X1600, including specs and performance data.

GT 650M Mac Edition
2012
512 MB GDDR5, 45 Watt
1.59
+1123%

GT 650M Mac Edition outperforms ATI X1600 by a whopping 1123% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking9631438
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.420.33
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ultra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)
GPU code nameGK107RV516
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date12 July 2012 (12 years ago)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 cores384no data
Core clock speed900 MHz635 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million105 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt27 Watt
Texture fill rate28.802.540
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs324

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 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1254 MHz800 MBps
Memory bandwidth80.26 GB/s12.8 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 outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.62.1
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 0.13
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 27 Watt

GT 650M Mac Edition has a 1123.1% higher aggregate performance score, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

ATI X1600, on the other hand, has 66.7% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon X1600 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition is a notebook card while Radeon X1600 is a desktop one.


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