NVIDIA GeForce 705M vs AMD Radeon HD 8650G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 705M and AMD Radeon HD 8650G 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 705M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
  • Around 38% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 533 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
  • 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 455 vs 140
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 September 2013 vs 1 May 2013
Core clock speed 738 MHz vs 533 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 455 vs 140

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8650G

  • 8x more pipelines: 384 vs 48
  • Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 518 vs 456
  • Around 82% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2062 vs 1131
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 1629
  • Around 82% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2062 vs 1131
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 1629
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 384 vs 48
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 518 vs 456
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2062 vs 1131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 1629
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2062 vs 1131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 1629

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 705M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8650G

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
456
518
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
455
140
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1131
2062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1629
3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1131
2062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1629
3353
Name NVIDIA GeForce 705M AMD Radeon HD 8650G
PassMark - G3D Mark 456 518
PassMark - G2D Mark 455 140
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 4.569
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 115.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.373
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 7.904
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 11.055
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1131 2062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1629 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1131 2062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1629 3353
Geekbench - OpenCL 1735
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 736
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 736

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 705M AMD Radeon HD 8650G

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Terascale 3
Code name GF117 Richland
Launch date 27 September 2013 1 May 2013
Place in performance rating 1271 1272
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 738 MHz 533 MHz
Floating-point performance 141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 48 384
Texture fill rate 5.904 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt
Transistor count 585 million
Boost clock speed 720 MHz

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 2560x1600
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 2560x1600
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 API 11
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3
Shared memory 0 1
Standard memory configuration DDR3

Technologies

Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus