ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 vs ATI Radeon 8500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 and ATI Radeon 8500 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

ATI Radeon 8500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 275 MHz
4.1x more texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 23 Watt
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 550 MHz
63.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 444 vs 7
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 146

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 14 August 2001
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 23 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 550 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	444 vs 7
PassMark - G2D Mark	149 vs 146

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

444

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

149

146

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	ATI Radeon 8500
PassMark - G3D Mark	444	7
PassMark - G2D Mark	149	146
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340
Geekbench - OpenCL	3776
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	ATI Radeon 8500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rage 7
Code name	Madison	R200
Launch date	7 January 2010	14 August 2001
Place in performance rating	1362	1165
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	650 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	400
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s	2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	60 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.4	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0