Radeon HD 8650D IGP vs GeForce 9650M GS

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1168not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.68no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameG84Scrapper
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date13 March 2008 (16 years ago)28 December 2013 (10 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 cores32384
Core clock speed625 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speedno data844 MHz
Number of transistors289 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate10.0020.26
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS0.6482 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1624

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2008 28 December 2013
Chip lithography 80 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 29 Watt 65 Watt

9650M GS has 124.1% lower power consumption.

HD 8650D IGP, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9650M GS and Radeon HD 8650D IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9650M GS is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8650D IGP is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
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AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP
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