AMD Radeon HD 8650G IGP vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8650G IGP and AMD Radeon HD 8970M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8650G IGP

  • 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 100 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 100 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M

  • Around 59% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 533 MHz
  • Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 850 MHz vs 720 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 533 MHz
Boost clock speed 850 MHz vs 720 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 32 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8650G IGP
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Name AMD Radeon HD 8650G IGP AMD Radeon HD 8970M
PassMark - G3D Mark 3876
PassMark - G2D Mark 807
Geekbench - OpenCL 20588
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 57.241
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1223.742
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.78
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 89.306
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 268.643
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2595
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2595
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8650G IGP AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 3 GCN 1.0
Code name Devastator Neptune
Launch date 23 May 2013 14 May 2013
Place in performance rating not rated 556
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 720 MHz 850 MHz
Core clock speed 533 MHz 850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 1,303 million 2,800 million
Compute units 20
Floating-point performance 2,304 gflops
Pipelines 1280
Texture fill rate 72 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.4 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
PowerTune
ZeroCore

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