Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand vs HD 8650G

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1016not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.71no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameDevastatorSun
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 May 2013 (11 years ago)1 March 2013 (11 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 cores384320
Core clock speed533 MHz750 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHz825 MHz
Number of transistors1,303 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rate17.2816.50
Floating-point processing power0.553 TFLOPS0.528 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2420

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
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8

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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 GB/s
Shared memory+no 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 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 May 2013 1 March 2013
Chip lithography 32 nm 28 nm

HD 8650G has an age advantage of 2 months.

R5 M230 Rebrand, on the other hand, has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8650G and Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand. We've got no test results to judge.


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