AMD Radeon HD 8650G vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8650G and ATI Radeon HD 4850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8650G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 139 vs 80
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 May 2013 vs 25 June 2008
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 3344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 3344
PassMark - G2D Mark 139 vs 80

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850

  • Around 17% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 533 MHz
  • 2.1x more pipelines: 800 vs 384
  • Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 933 vs 524
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 625 MHz vs 533 MHz
Pipelines 800 vs 384
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 933 vs 524

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8650G
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
3344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
3344
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
139
80
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
524
933
Name AMD Radeon HD 8650G ATI Radeon HD 4850
Geekbench - OpenCL 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 736
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 736
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2062
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 3344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 3344
PassMark - G2D Mark 139 80
PassMark - G3D Mark 524 933

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8650G ATI Radeon HD 4850

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 TeraScale
Code name Richland RV770
Launch date 1 May 2013 25 June 2008
Place in performance rating 1276 1278
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $199

Technical info

Boost clock speed 720 MHz
Core clock speed 533 MHz 625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 384 800
Floating-point performance 1,000.0 gflops
Texture fill rate 25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt
Transistor count 956 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 246 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 63.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1986 MHz
Memory type GDDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video