ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 and NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
12.5x more pipelines: 400 vs 32
3.6x better floating-point performance: 360.0 gflops vs 99.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 45 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 449 vs 209
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 145 vs 120
Around 76% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3340 vs 1901
Around 76% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3340 vs 1901

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 29 July 2008
Pipelines	400 vs 32
Floating-point performance	360.0 gflops vs 99.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 45 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	449 vs 209
PassMark - G2D Mark	145 vs 120
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340 vs 1901
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340 vs 1901

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

Around 39% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 10 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

449

209

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

120

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3340

1901

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3340

1901

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	449	209
PassMark - G2D Mark	145	120
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340	1901
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340	1901
Geekbench - OpenCL	3776
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Madison	G96
Launch date	7 January 2010	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	1371	1374
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	650 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.0 gflops	99.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	400	32
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Gigaflops		148
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0