Radeon HD 8650M: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon HD 8650M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.04% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 8650M sales 7 January 2013. This is a GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4.5 GHz are supplied.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 8650M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 883 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN (2012−2015) | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 7 January 2013 (11 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon HD 8650M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 8650M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 650 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 900 Million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 8650M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | medium sized |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 8650M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 4500 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Shared memory | - |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon HD 8650M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 8650M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon HD 8650M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 7−8 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 5−6 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 5−6 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Hitman 3 | 6−7 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 16−18 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 9−10 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 35−40 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 7−8 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 5−6 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 5−6 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Hitman 3 | 6−7 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 16−18 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 9−10 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 12−14 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 35−40 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 7−8 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 5−6 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 7−8 | |
| Hitman 3 | 6−7 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 16−18 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 9−10 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 12−14 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 35−40 |
Full HD
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 |
1440p
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 3−4 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 3−4 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 1−2 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 1−2 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 2−3 | |
| Hitman 3 | 7−8 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 6−7 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 1−2 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 10−11 |
1440p
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 5−6 |
4K
High Preset
| Far Cry New Dawn | 1−2 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 1−2 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 1−2 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
4K
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 3−4 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 8650M is GeForce 8800M GTX SLI, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
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