GeForce GT 610 vs GTX 775M Mac Edition

Place in the ranking	733	1139
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	0.01
Power efficiency	2.33	1.93
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GK104	GF119
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	8 November 2013 (11 years ago)	2 April 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$39.99

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores	1344	48
Core clock speed	797 MHz	810 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	292 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	no data	102 °C
Texture fill rate	89.26	6.480
Floating-point processing power	2.142 TFLOPS	0.1555 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	112	8

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).

Bus support	no data	PCI Express 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	145 mm
Height	no data	2.7" (6.9 cm)
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	GDDR5	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1024 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB/s	14.4 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 Connectors	No outputs	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI, VGA
Multi monitor support	no data	+
HDMI	-	+
HDCP	-	+
Maximum VGA resolution	no data	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	no data	Internal

Supported technologies

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

3D Blu-Ray

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.2
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	3.0	+

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	3.37	0.81
Recency	8 November 2013	2 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1024 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	29 Watt

GTX 775M Mac Edition has a 316% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

GT 610, on the other hand, has 244.8% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 610 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 775M Mac Edition is a notebook card while GeForce GT 610 is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.