Radeon RX Vega Mobile vs ATI Mobility HD 5650

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking998not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.46no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameMadisonVega Mobile
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 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 cores4001792
Core clock speed450 MHzno data
Boost clock speed650 MHzno data
Number of transistors627 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt90 Watt
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 sizedmedium sized
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 typeGDDR3HBM2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
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)12_1
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 7 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 90 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5650 has 500% lower power consumption.

RX Vega Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5650 and Radeon RX Vega Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
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