Radeon RX 6850M XT vs HD 7650M Rebrand

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated77
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.88
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameWhistlerNavi 22
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date28 March 2012 (12 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 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 cores4802560
Core clock speed485 MHz2321 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2581 MHz
Number of transistors716 million17,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt165 Watt
Texture fill rate11.64413.0
Floating-point processing power0.4656 TFLOPS13.21 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs24160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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 datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s384.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 March 2012 4 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 165 Watt

HD 7650M Rebrand has 725% lower power consumption.

RX 6850M XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7650M Rebrand and Radeon RX 6850M XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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