GeForce FX Go5650 vs Radeon E8950

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking367not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.40no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameAmethystNV31
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 September 2015 (9 years ago)1 March 2003 (21 year 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 cores2048no data
Core clock speed735 MHz325 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,000 million80 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattno data
Texture fill rate128.01.300
Floating-point processing power4.096 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs1284

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB128 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz295 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s9.44 GB/s

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 outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)9.0a
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 September 2015 1 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm

Radeon E8950 has an age advantage of 12 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon E8950 and GeForce FX Go5650. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon E8950
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