GeForce 7050 + nForce 630a vs Radeon HD 7650M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1069not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.08no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameThamesC68
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2012 (12 years ago)1 February 2006 (18 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 cores480no data
Core clock speed450 MHz425 MHz
Boost clock speed550 MHzno data
Number of transistors716 million112 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate10.800.85
Floating-point processing power0.432 TFLOPSno data
ROPs161
TMUs242

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.03.0
OpenGL4.42.1
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2012 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm

HD 7650M has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7650M and GeForce 7050 + nForce 630a. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7650M is a notebook card while GeForce 7050 + nForce 630a is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7650M
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