ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 vs ATI HD 3650

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1001
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data6.51
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameRV635Madison
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date20 January 2008 (16 years ago)7 January 2010 (14 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 cores120400
Core clock speed725 MHz450 MHz
Boost clock speedno data650 MHz
Number of transistors378 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate5.8009.000
Floating-point processing power0.174 TFLOPS0.36 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs820

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s25.6 GB/s
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 January 2008 7 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5650 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 37.5% more advanced lithography process, and 333.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3650 and Mobility Radeon HD 5650. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3650 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 5650 is a notebook one.


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