HD Graphics 500 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

Place in the ranking	1288	1155
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.83	8.95
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Generation 9.0 (2015−2016)
GPU code name	M86	Apollo Lake GT1
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	7 January 2008 (17 years ago)	1 September 2015 (9 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 cores	120	96
Core clock speed	500 MHz	200 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	650 MHz
Number of transistors	378 million	189 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	10 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.000	7.800
Floating-point processing power	0.12 TFLOPS	0.1248 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	2
TMUs	8	12

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 size	medium sized	no data
Interface	MXM-II	Ring Bus

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 type	GDDR3	DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.1	6.4
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	4−5 −125%	9 +125%
1440p	-0−1	1

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Counter-Strike 2	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Forza Horizon 4	5−6 −40%	7−8 +40%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%

Full HD
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Far Cry 5	7−8 +75%	4 −75%
Forza Horizon 4	5−6 −40%	7−8 +40%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	7−8 +133%	3 −133%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 −20%	6−7 +20%
World of Tanks	12−14 −53.8%	20−22 +53.8%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2	8−9 −12.5%	9−10 +12.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Far Cry 5	7−8 −14.3%	8−9 +14.3%
Forza Horizon 4	5−6 −40%	7−8 +40%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	7−8 −42.9%	10−11 +42.9%

1440p
High Preset

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS

2−3

−100%

4−5
+100%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2	9−10 +0%	9−10 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Far Cry 5	4−5 +0%	4−5 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Valorant	5−6 +0%	5−6 +0%

4K
High Preset

Dota 2	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
Grand Theft Auto V	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	1−2 −100%	2−3 +100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	0−1	1−2
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Dota 2	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
Valorant	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%

Full HD
High Preset

Dota 2	2 +0%	2 +0%
Fortnite	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Dota 2

+0%

1440p
High Preset

World of Tanks

3−4

+0%

3−4

+0%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 3650 and HD Graphics 500 compete in popular games:

HD Graphics 500 is 125% faster in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS, with 1080p resolution and the High Preset, the ATI Mobility HD 3650 is 133% faster.
in PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS, with 1440p resolution and the High Preset, the HD Graphics 500 is 100% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

ATI Mobility HD 3650 is ahead in 2 tests (6%)
HD Graphics 500 is ahead in 19 tests (53%)
there's a draw in 15 tests (42%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.36	0.78
Recency	7 January 2008	1 September 2015
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	8 GB
Chip lithography	55 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	10 Watt

HD Graphics 500 has a 116.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 200% lower power consumption.

The HD Graphics 500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon HD 3650 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.