Radeon R5 430 OEM vs HD 8650M

Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon HD 8650M with Radeon R5 430 OEM, including specs and performance data.

HD 8650M
2013
2 GB GDDR5
2.04

R5 430 OEM outperforms HD 8650M by a substantial 31% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking877804
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.72
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameno dataOland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2013 (11 years ago)30 June 2016 (8 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 cores384384
Core clock speed650 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data780 MHz
Number of transistors900 Million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data18.72
Floating-point processing powerno data0.599 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24

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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed4500 MHz1150 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data36.8 GB/s
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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131

Gaming performance

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

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−28.6%
9−10
+28.6%
Battlefield 5 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Far Cry 5 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
−28.6%
9−10
+28.6%
Hitman 3 6−7
−16.7%
7−8
+16.7%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
−23.5%
21−24
+23.5%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 9−10
−11.1%
10−11
+11.1%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−28.6%
45−50
+28.6%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−28.6%
9−10
+28.6%
Battlefield 5 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Far Cry 5 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
−28.6%
9−10
+28.6%
Hitman 3 6−7
−16.7%
7−8
+16.7%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
−23.5%
21−24
+23.5%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 9−10
−11.1%
10−11
+11.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−16.7%
14−16
+16.7%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−28.6%
45−50
+28.6%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−28.6%
9−10
+28.6%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Far Cry 5 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
−28.6%
9−10
+28.6%
Hitman 3 6−7
−16.7%
7−8
+16.7%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
−23.5%
21−24
+23.5%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 9−10
−11.1%
10−11
+11.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−16.7%
14−16
+16.7%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−28.6%
45−50
+28.6%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Far Cry 5 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Hitman 3 7−8
−28.6%
9−10
+28.6%
Horizon Zero Dawn 6−7
−16.7%
7−8
+16.7%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 10−11
−20%
12−14
+20%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 0−1 0−1
Far Cry 5 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.04 2.67
Recency 7 January 2013 30 June 2016

R5 430 OEM has a 30.9% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 3 years.

The Radeon R5 430 OEM is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 8650M in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8650M is a notebook card while Radeon R5 430 OEM is a desktop one.


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