ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 vs NVIDIA ION LE

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 and NVIDIA ION LE 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

NVIDIA ION LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 20 Watt
4.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 449 vs 98
Around 51% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 145 vs 96

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 3 June 2008
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	449 vs 98
PassMark - G2D Mark	145 vs 96

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
GPU 2: NVIDIA ION LE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

449

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	NVIDIA ION LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	449	98
PassMark - G2D Mark	145	96
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	NVIDIA ION LE
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Madison	ION
Launch date	7 January 2010	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1370	1374
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	650 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	400
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	282 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory	0