Radeon HD 6650M vs FirePro D700

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Aggregate performance score

FirePro D700
2014
6 GB GDDR5, 274 Watt
13.86
+611%

FirePro D700 outperforms Radeon HD 6650M by a whopping 611% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking350862
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.230.36
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameTahitiWhistler-PRO
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)4 January 2011 (13 years ago)
Current price$413 $53

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro D700 has 1353% better value for money than HD 6650M.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048480
Core clock speed850 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million716 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Wattno data
Texture fill rate108.814.40
Floating-point performance3,482 gflops576.0 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on FirePro D700 and Radeon HD 6650M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount6 GB1 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed5480 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth263.0 GB/s25.6 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDINo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p130−140
+584%
19
−584%
Full HD120−130
+567%
18
−567%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 13.86 1.95
Recency 18 January 2014 4 January 2011
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm

The FirePro D700 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 6650M in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro D700 is a workstation card while Radeon HD 6650M is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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