NVIDIA GeForce MX150 vs AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX150 and AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce MX150

AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX150

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 30% higher core clock speed: 937 MHz vs 720 MHz
Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 844 MHz
2.3x more texture fill rate: 46.98 GTexel / s vs 20.26 GTexel / s
Around 74% better floating-point performance: 1,127 gflops vs 648.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 32 nm
6.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 65 Watt
5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2259 vs 396

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 May 2017 vs 28 December 2013
Core clock speed	937 MHz vs 720 MHz
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz vs 844 MHz
Texture fill rate	46.98 GTexel / s vs 20.26 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,127 gflops vs 648.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 32 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2259 vs 396

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP

Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 259 vs 213
Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10204 vs 9584

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	259 vs 213
Geekbench - OpenCL	10204 vs 9584

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX150
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2259

396

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

213

259

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9584

10204

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX150	AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	2259	396
PassMark - G2D Mark	213	259
Geekbench - OpenCL	9584	10204
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	45.905
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	495.238
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.365
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	38.965
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	145.794
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4330
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4330
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	999

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX150	AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale 3
Code name	GP108	Scrapper
Launch date	17 May 2017	28 December 2013
Place in performance rating	875	877
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	844 MHz
Core clock speed	937 MHz	720 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,127 gflops	648.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	384	384
Texture fill rate	46.98 GTexel / s	20.26 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	1,303 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	IGP
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	48.06 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	System Shared
Shared memory	0