AMD Radeon HD 8650G vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8650G and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Technologies. 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 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 3x more pipelines: 384 vs 128
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 90 nm
  • Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 138 vs 94
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 May 2013 vs 8 November 2006
Pipelines 384 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 3349
PassMark - G2D Mark 138 vs 94

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 576 MHz vs 533 MHz
  • Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 584 vs 525
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 576 MHz vs 533 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 584 vs 525

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8650G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
3349
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
138
94
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
525
584
Name AMD Radeon HD 8650G NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
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 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 3349
PassMark - G2D Mark 138 94
PassMark - G3D Mark 525 584

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8650G NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 Tesla
Code name Richland G80
Launch date 1 May 2013 8 November 2006
Place in performance rating 1274 1276
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $599

Technical info

Boost clock speed 720 MHz
Core clock speed 533 MHz 576 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 384 128
CUDA cores 575
Floating-point performance 345.6 gflops
Texture fill rate 36.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 155 Watt
Transistor count 681 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 270 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 768 MB
Memory bandwidth 86.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz
Memory type GDDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Technologies

SLI