ATI Mobility Radeon M7 vs ATI Mobility HD 5650

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1003not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.51no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)no data
GPU code nameMadisonM7
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 December 2001 (22 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 cores4003
Core clock speed450 MHz1 MHz
Boost clock speed650 MHz230 MHz
Number of transistors627 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate9.000no data
Floating-point processing power0.36 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs20no data

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no 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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz183 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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 outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)DDR
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 1 December 2001
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 180 nm

ATI Mobility HD 5650 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 350% more advanced lithography process.

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