ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M 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 GTS 360M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

4.2x more pipelines: 400 vs 96
Around 31% better floating-point performance: 360.0 gflops vs 275.71 gflops
2.5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 38 Watt
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 145 vs 60

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	400 vs 96
Floating-point performance	360.0 gflops vs 275.71 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 38 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	145 vs 60
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340 vs 3329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340 vs 3329

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

3.2x more core clock speed: 1436 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 96% higher texture fill rate: 17.6 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 651 vs 449
3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11217 vs 3776

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1436 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.6 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	651 vs 449
Geekbench - OpenCL	11217 vs 3776

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

449

651

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3340

3329

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3340

3329

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3776

11217

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
PassMark - G3D Mark	449	651
PassMark - G2D Mark	145	60
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340	3329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340	3329
Geekbench - OpenCL	3776	11217
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Madison	GT215
Launch date	7 January 2010	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	1370	1371
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	650 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	1436 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.0 gflops	275.71 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	400	96
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s	17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	38 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	727 million
CUDA cores		96
Gigaflops		413
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	Single Link DVILVDSHDMIDual Link DVIDisplayPortVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Laptop size	medium sized	large
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
MXM Type		MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management		8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI