Radeon HD 8650M: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon HD 8650M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.90% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 8650M sales 7 January 2013. This is a GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4.5 GHz are supplied.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 8650M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 868 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.13 | |
| Architecture | GCN (2011−2017) | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 7 January 2013 (11 years ago) | |
| Current price | $338 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
Radeon HD 8650M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 8650M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 650 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 900 Million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on Radeon HD 8650M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | medium sized |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 8650M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 4500 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Shared memory | - |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon HD 8650M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 8650M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon HD 8650M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 4−5 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 2−3 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Hitman 3 | 5−6 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 14−16 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 1−2 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 4−5 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 2−3 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Hitman 3 | 5−6 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 14−16 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 1−2 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 4−5 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 14−16 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 1−2 |
Full HD
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 |
1440p
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 2−3 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 0−1 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 4−5 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 2−3 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 6−7 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 2−3 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
4K
High Preset
| Far Cry 5 | 7−8 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 2−3 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 1−2 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 0−1 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 0−1 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 2−3 | |
| Metro Exodus | 4−5 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
4K
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 3−4 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 8650M is GeForce 920M, which is slower by 2% and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.
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