Radeon HD 8650D IGP vs R5 235X OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameCaicosScrapper
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 December 2013 (10 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 cores160384
Core clock speed875 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speedno data844 MHz
Number of transistors370 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate7.00020.26
Floating-point processing power0.28 TFLOPS0.6482 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 65 Watt

R5 235X OEM has 261.1% lower power consumption.

HD 8650D IGP, on the other hand, has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 235X OEM and Radeon HD 8650D IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM
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