ATI Radeon HD 4650 vs R7 (Carrizo)

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R7 (Carrizo) with Radeon HD 4650, including specs and performance data.

R7 (Carrizo)
2015
12 Watt
2.01
+219%

R7 (Carrizo) outperforms ATI HD 4650 by a whopping 219% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking8911195
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.940.90
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameCarrizoRV730
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)10 September 2008 (16 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 cores512320
Core clock speedno data600 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Number of transistors2410 Million514 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt48 Watt
Texture fill rateno data19.20
Floating-point processing powerno data0.384 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

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 2.0 x16
Lengthno data193 mm
Widthno data1-slot

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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data22.4 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 data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A

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 HD10
+233%
3−4
−233%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
+250%
2−3
−250%
Battlefield 5 1−2 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
+400%
1−2
−400%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
Far Cry 5 3−4 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
+400%
1−2
−400%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
+250%
2−3
−250%
Hitman 3 6−7
+500%
1−2
−500%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
+240%
5−6
−240%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
+233%
3−4
−233%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
+250%
10−11
−250%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
+250%
2−3
−250%
Battlefield 5 1−2 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
+400%
1−2
−400%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
Far Cry 5 3−4 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
+400%
1−2
−400%
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
+250%
2−3
−250%
Hitman 3 6−7
+500%
1−2
−500%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
+240%
5−6
−240%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
+233%
3−4
−233%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14
+250%
4−5
−250%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
+250%
10−11
−250%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
+250%
2−3
−250%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
+400%
1−2
−400%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
Far Cry 5 3−4 0−1
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
+250%
2−3
−250%
Hitman 3 6−7
+500%
1−2
−500%
Horizon Zero Dawn 16−18
+240%
5−6
−240%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
+233%
3−4
−233%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
+300%
3−4
−300%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
+250%
10−11
−250%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 3−4 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4 0−1

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2 0−1
Far Cry 5 2−3 0−1
Hitman 3 7−8
+250%
2−3
−250%
Horizon Zero Dawn 6−7
+500%
1−2
−500%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2 0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion 10−12
+267%
3−4
−267%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
+400%
1−2
−400%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn 1−2 0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

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

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4 0−1

This is how R7 (Carrizo) and ATI HD 4650 compete in popular games:

  • R7 (Carrizo) is 233% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.01 0.63
Recency 4 June 2015 10 September 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 48 Watt

R7 (Carrizo) has a 219% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 300% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R7 (Carrizo) is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 4650 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R7 (Carrizo) is a notebook card while Radeon HD 4650 is a desktop one.


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