Radeon HD 8650D IGP vs GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking114not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.29no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLIScrapper
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date22 September 2015 (9 years ago)28 December 2013 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096384
Core clock speed1126 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHz844 MHz
Number of transistors10400 Million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rateno data20.26
Floating-point processing powerno data0.6482 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed3500 MHzSystem Shared
Shared memory-no 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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_111.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 September 2015 28 December 2013
Chip lithography 28 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 330 Watt 65 Watt

GTX 980 SLI Mobile has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

HD 8650D IGP, on the other hand, has 407.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon HD 8650D IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8650D IGP is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
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AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP
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