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.

 

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
7
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