AMD Radeon HD 6650M vs ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6650M and ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6650M

ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6650M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 50% higher pipelines: 480 vs 320
Around 50% better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
3.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 753 vs 208
Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 224 vs 156

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 10 September 2008
Pipelines	480 vs 320
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	753 vs 208
PassMark - G2D Mark	224 vs 156

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6650M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

753

208

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

224

156

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6650M	ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	753	208
PassMark - G2D Mark	224	156
Geekbench - OpenCL	5780
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1866
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1866
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3334
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3334

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6650M	ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Whistler	RV730
Launch date	4 January 2011	10 September 2008
Place in performance rating	1048	1051
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	480	320
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	716 million	514 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		48 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0