GeForce 9650M GT vs Radeon R4 (Kaveri)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1136not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameKaveriG96C
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2014 (10 years ago)19 August 2008 (16 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 cores19232
Core clock speed533 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million314 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data23 Watt
Texture fill rateno data8.800
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0848 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

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 sizeno datamedium sized
Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
Interfaceno dataMXM-II

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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data25.6 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 dataNo outputs
Maximum VGA resolutionno data1920x1200

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

R4 (Kaveri) 1958
+49.9%
9650M GT 1306

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2014 19 August 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm

R4 (Kaveri) has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R4 (Kaveri) and GeForce 9650M GT. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R4 (Kaveri)
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