ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650

The ATI Mobilty Radon HD 4650 from AMD is a DirectX 10.1 middle-class notebook graphics adapter. Technically it is a slower clocked Mobility Radeon HD 4670.

The gaming performance of the GPU lies a bit below the HD 4670. Most DirectX 9 games (like Call of Duty 4, F.E.A.R., or Unreal Tournament 3) should be playable in medium to high details (in 1024x768). Demanding DX10 games from 2008 like Crysis run only in low-medium details fluently.

The Mobility HD 4650 is based on the RV730 chip and features 320 stream processors (64 5-dimensional shader cores). These cores do the graphic work of the shader- and pixel pipelines of older GPUs. The stream processors are also called ALUs and are grouped in five-way VLIW units. Each of the five instructions of a VLIW bundle has to be independent from the others and therefore the performance depends on the optimization of the driver.

A speciality of the Radeon HD 4600 Series is the possibility to use ordinary DDR2 and DDR3 graphic memory (as a cheaper alternative to GDDR3). However, cards that use that kind of memory will be slower than others equipped with GDDR RAM.

The Mobility Radeon HD 4650 includes the Avivo HD called video technology including an onboard soundchip for 7.1 sound output over HDMI or DisplayPort and the 2nd generation UVD (Unified Video Decoder). This UVD 2 supports full bitstream decoding of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and VC-1 streams. In addition to this, it also supports dual video stream decoding and Picture-in Picture mode which makes the UVD full BD-Live compliant. Simplified, the Avivo HD technology handles all video tasks and enables the GPU to decode HD videos.

AMD published a current consumtion of about 15-25 Watt for the HD 4650. Still it is unclear if this value represents the chip alone or the whole mxm board including the memory (which would include about 5 Watt).

Compared to the desktop ATI Radeon HD 4650, the mobile counterpart features a slower chip and memory clock (575/800 versus 600/1000) and therefore performs a bit slower than the desktop 4650.

Manufacturer	ATI
Series	Mobility Radeon HD 4000
Codename	M96
Pipelines	320 - unified
Core Speed *	550 MHz
Shader Speed *	550 MHz
Memory Speed *	800 MHz
Memory Bus Width	128 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Max. Amount of Memory
Shared Memory	no
DirectX	DirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
Current Consumption	35 Watt
Transistors	514 Million
technology	55 nm
Features	OpenGL 2.0, PCI-E 2.0 x16, Powerplay, DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600, HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio), 1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI, 1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
Notebook Size	medium sized
Date of Announcement	09.01.2009
Link to Manufacturer Page	http://ati.amd.com/products/MobilityRade...

* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

benchmarks

3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 17505, avg: 25680, max: 33488 Points ... More Details

3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 15500, avg: 19055, max: 21712 Points ... More Details

3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
0% 100%
min: 10565, avg: 12571, max: 14191 Points ... More Details

3DMark 06:
0% 100%
min: 4920, avg: 6410, max: 7441 Points ... More Details

Cinebench R10: - Shading
0% 100%
min: 3667, avg: 4785, max: 6720 Points ... More Details

3DMark Vantage: - P Result 1280x1024
0% 100%
min: 2262, avg: 2456, max: 2727 Points ... More Details

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card

- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 69 benchmarks

3DMark 05 in comparison
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 (min)	137
...
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M	11466
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M	11550
NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS	11777
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650	12571
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670	12614
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870	12885
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT SLI	12932
...
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI (max)	19268

Game Benchmarks

CoD Modern Warfare 2 (2009)

low:

119.4 fps

med.:

32 fps

ultra:

16.1 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.

Risen (2009)

low:

64.4 fps

med.:

29.8 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.

Need for Speed Shift (2009)

low:

48.2 fps

med.:

30.4 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.

Anno 1404 (2009)

low:

53.5 63.4 97 118 ~ 83 fps

ultra:

15.8 18.5 21.3 21.9 ~ 19 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.

Sims 3 (2009)

med.:

102.3 fps

high:

58.8 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

F.E.A.R. 2 (2009)

low:

71.7 103.6 128 160.4 ~ 116 fps

med.:

58 60 61.5 62.6 68.5 ~ 62 fps

high:

40 41.6 43.3 47 53 ~ 45 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)

low:

43.8 fps

med.:

29 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.

Left 4 Dead (2008)

low:

90 fps

high:

78.4 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Racedriver: GRID (2008)

low:

61.8 63.7 66.5 77.5 ~ 67 fps

med.:

38.5 45.6 57 59.9 65.4 ~ 53 fps

high:

32.8 34 36.6 38.2 46.1 ~ 38 fps

» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

low:

95 212.8 238.3 282.5 ~ 207 fps

med.:

62.8 65 66.5 90.8 92 ~ 75 fps

high:

34.7 36 50.5 51.6 ~ 43 fps

» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

med.:

46.5 fps

high:

36.8 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

low:

41 48.6 67.5 72 83 87.2 97 ~ 71 fps

med.:

33 39 41.5 42 47 50.9 58 ~ 44 fps

high:

25.5 26.2 26.6 27.2 27.3 28 31 34.2 ~ 28 fps

» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings med..

Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)

low:

51 57.1 81.5 82 84 95.4 102 ~ 79 fps

med.:

29.3 33.7 36 36 38.5 43.7 48 ~ 38 fps

high:

19.2 20 20.3 21.3 21.6 22 24 32.3 ~ 23 fps

» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings med..

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

med.:

64 fps

high:

19 33 ~ 26 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..

Call of Juarez Benchmark (2006)

high:

21.7 22.7 ~ 22 fps

» With most tested laptops not playable.

The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion (2006)

high:

66 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

F.E.A.R. (2005)

low:

143 248 ~ 196 fps

med.:

8 30 ~ 19 fps

high:

8 29 ~ 19 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.

World of Warcraft (2005)

low:

91.2 261 ~ 176 fps

med.:

60.1 64.9 93.5 ~ 73 fps

high:

23 24.3 30.9 ~ 26 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings med..

Counter-Strike Source (2004)

high:

285 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Doom 3 (2004)

low:

191.1 fps

med.:

196 fps

high:

193.3 fps

ultra:

159 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings ultra.

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

high:

603.9 608.2 650 ~ 621 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List

Gaming Performance

In our review of the Compal HLB2 barebone, we tested the integrated HD 4650 that is clocked with fast 600/800 MHz with different games. Warning - slower clocked 4650 gpus in other notebooks should perform much worse.

Crysis: 1024x768, high: 32 fps -> playable
GTA 4: 800x600, min: 46 fps -> fully playable
Call of Duty 4: 1280x1024, high: 30 fps -> playable with stuttering
Racedriver GRID: 1280x1024, high, 2xAA: 40 fps -> fully playable
F.E.A.R. 2: 1024x768, medium, 2xAA: 50 fps -> fully playable

: COD4

: Fear2

: Grid

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Compal KHLB2 (Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, 15.6")
» Review Compal KHLB2 Notebook - Review
» Compal KHLB2 - External Review

HP Pavilion dv6-1211sg (Intel Pentium Dual Core T4200, 15.6")
» Review HP Pavilion dv6-1211sg Notebook - Review
» HP Pavilion dv6-1211sg - External Review

HP Pavilion dv6-1253cl (Intel Core 2 Duo P7450, 16.0")
» HP Pavilion dv6-1253cl - External Review

HP Pavilion dv7-2005eg (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000, 17.3")
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HP Pavilion dv7-2070eg (AMD Turion X2 RM-75, 17.3")
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HP Pavilion dv7-2142eg (Intel Core 2 Duo T6500, 17.3")
» HP Pavilion dv7-2142eg - External Review

HP Pavilion dv7-2160ef (Intel Core 2 Duo P7550, 17.3")
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HP Pavilion dv7-2170us (Intel Core 2 Duo P7450, 17.3")
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HP Pavilion dv7-2173cl (Intel Core 2 Duo P7350, 17.3")
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HP Pavilion dv7-2180us (Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000, 17.3")
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HP Pavilion dv7-2185DX (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000, 17.3")
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Samsung R522 (Intel Core 2 Duo T6400, 15.6")
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Sony Vaio VGN-FW41 (Intel Core 2 Duo T6400, 16.4")
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Sony Vaio VGN-FW46M (Intel Core 2 Duo P8700, 16.4")
» Sony Vaio VGN-FW46M - External Review

Sony Vaio VGN-FW480J/T (Intel Core 2 Duo P7350, 16.4")
» Sony Vaio VGN-FW480J/T - External Review

Toshiba Satellite A500-11U (Intel Core 2 Duo P8700, 16.0")
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Toshiba Satellite A500-14H (Intel Core 2 Duo P8700, 16.4")
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Toshiba Satellite A500-15H (Intel Core 2 Duo P7350, 16.0")
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Toshiba Satellite L500-164 (Intel Core 2 Duo P8700, 15.6")
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Toshiba Satellite P300-212 (Intel Core 2 Duo T9550, 17.0")
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Toshiba Satellite P505-S8945 (Intel Core 2 Duo P7350, 18.4")
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