AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 480 and AMD Radeon HD 6650A 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 RX 480

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 87% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 12.7x more texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
  • 4.8x more pipelines: 2304 vs 480
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.9x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 10.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8613 vs 836
  • Around 86% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 777 vs 418
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 June 2016 vs 19 April 2011
Core clock speed 1120 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 182.3 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8613 vs 836
PassMark - G2D Mark 777 vs 418

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6650A

  • 99.3x better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 150 Watt
Floating-point performance 576.0 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 480
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6650A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8613
836
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
777
418
Name AMD Radeon RX 480 AMD Radeon HD 6650A
PassMark - G3D Mark 8613 836
PassMark - G2D Mark 777 418
Geekbench - OpenCL 39256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 103.851
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 769.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 7.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 67.879
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 597.772
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4165

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 480 AMD Radeon HD 6650A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale 2
Code name Ellesmere Onega
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 29 June 2016 19 April 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Place in performance rating 354 352
Price now $299.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 39.12

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1266 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1120 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 5.8 TFLOPs 576.0 gflops
GPU Power 110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 2304 480
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 182.3 GTexel / s 14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 716 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support n / a
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Length 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
Enduro
FreeSync
FRTC
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HD3D
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore