AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Sky 500 and NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS 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, 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).

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Sky 500

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 450 MHz
14.1x more texture fill rate: 76 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
6x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 800 MHz
35.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4709 vs 134
Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 572 vs 335

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 March 2013 vs 22 March 2006
Core clock speed	950 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	76 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4709 vs 134
PassMark - G2D Mark	572 vs 335

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Sky 500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4709

134

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

572

335

Name	AMD Radeon Sky 500	NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	4709	134
PassMark - G2D Mark	572	335
Geekbench - OpenCL	74902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	54.669
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1096.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	89.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	247.642
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5116
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	5116

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Sky 500	NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Pitcairn	G73
Launch date	27 March 2013	22 March 2006
Place in performance rating	506	509
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	950 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1280
Texture fill rate	76 GTexel / s	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	177 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort count	1
Dual-link DVI support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Form factor	Full Height / Full Length
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	242 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	154 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2