ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

The AMD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 is a middle class DirectX 11 graphics card for laptops. Its based on the Madison (LE, LP or Pro) chip and is produced in 40nm. Like its predecessor, the Mobility Radeon 4650, the HD 5650 features a 128 Bit memory bus for dedicated DDR3 and GDDR3 memory chips. GDDR5 is rumored to be not supported on the HD 5650 (only in the higher clocked versions like the 5700 series).

In our benchmarks with the HD 5650, the GPU is performing on a level with the previous Mobility Radeon HD 4670 or the Nvidia GeForce GTS 250M (with DDR3 graphics memory). This means the performance is sufficient for high details in nearly all DirectX 10 games (only Crysis and GTA4 are not fluently playable in high details - see gaming list below). Upcoming and current DirectX 11 games (like DIRT2) may not run in full detail settings. That means some of the new DirectX 11 features (Tesselation e.g.) may not run fluently on this gaming graphics adapter. Currently the HD 5650 is a good gaming pick for well priced laptops with a 15 inch screen and a resolution of about 1366x768.

The Mobility HD 5650 supports Avivo HD to accelerate HD videos using the graphics card. The improved UVD2 processor in the DirectX11 models of the Radeon HD 5000 series is able to decode up to two streams in parallel (if the card offers enough memory bandwidth). It is not clear if the HD 5650 using (G)DDR3 offers enough bandwidth for this task.

Another novelty of the HD 5650 is the possibility to transport HD Audio formats (8-channel Dolby True HD, DTS Master) over the HDMI port.

Thanks to Eyevision, up to 6 monitors can be used with the HD 5650 in 3D and 2D applications. In most laptops this number will be limited to max. 3 (2 external and the internal display).

The power consumption should be (due to the modern 40nm process in 2009) relatively low and according to rumors about 10-15 Watt.

Manufacturer	ATI
Series	Mobility Radeon HD 5000
Codename	Madison Pro
Pipelines	400 - unified
Core Speed *	450-650 MHz
Shader Speed *	450-650 MHz
Memory Speed *	800 MHz
Memory Bus Width	128 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR3, DDR3
Max. Amount of Memory	1024 MB
Shared Memory	no
DirectX	DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Current Consumption	15-19 Watt
Transistors	627 Million
technology	40 nm
Features	Eyfinity (up to 6 monitors), Avivo HD (UVD2), 8-channel HD Audio over HDMI
Notebook Size	medium sized
Date of Announcement	07.01.2010
Link to Manufacturer Page	http://www.amd.com/us/products/notebook/...

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

benchmarks

3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 26931, avg: 27263, max: 27572 Points ... More Details

3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 18855, avg: 20425, max: 21342 Points ... More Details

3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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min: 12222, avg: 13179, max: 13911 Points ... More Details

3DMark 06:
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min: 6101, avg: 6967, max: 7870 Points ... More Details

Cinebench R10: - Shading
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min: 4468, avg: 5095, max: 6011 Points ... More Details

3DMark Vantage: - P Result no PhysX 1280x1024
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min: 2786, avg: 3203, max: 3450 Points ... More Details

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card

- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
Based on 28 benchmarks

3DMark 05 in comparison
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 (min)	137
...
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT SLI	12932
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS	13125
NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M	13173
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	13179
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5165	13316
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS	13587
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M	13775
...
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI (max)	19268

Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (2010)

low:

50.5 fps

med.:

37.4 fps

high:

25.1 fps

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

CoD Modern Warfare 2 (2009)

low:

155.1 fps

med.:

42.3 54.6 57.7 ~ 52 fps

high:

33.6 52.2 ~ 43 fps

ultra:

24.1 35.7 ~ 30 fps

» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Risen (2009)

low:

83.2 fps

med.:

29.5 35 37 ~ 34 fps

high:

20.2 24.6 ~ 22 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.

Need for Speed Shift (2009)

low:

67.3 fps

med.:

37.9 44.1 ~ 41 fps

high:

26.5 29.4 ~ 28 fps

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

Colin McRae: DIRT 2 (2009)

med.:

42.3 fps

high:

22.4 fps

ultra:

13.6 fps

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

Anno 1404 (2009)

low:

92.4 144.5 ~ 118 fps

ultra:

23.7 27.1 30 43.7 ~ 31 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings low.

Sims 3 (2009)

low:

373.6 fps

med.:

239.8 fps

high:

132.4 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

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

low:

197.2 fps

med.:

67.6 91.7 ~ 80 fps

high:

41.6 44.2 58.2 ~ 48 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

GTA IV - Grand Theft Auto (2008)

low:

48.2 fps

med.:

42.7 fps

high:

24.8 fps

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

Left 4 Dead (2008)

low:

132.5 fps

high:

59.7 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Far Cry 2 (2008)

low:

78.9 114 ~ 96 fps

high:

43.5 43.9 46.1 ~ 44 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Crysis Warhead (2008): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings low. - more...

Racedriver: GRID (2008)

low:

168.8 fps

med.:

82.8 fps

high:

43.4 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

low:

204.3 fps

med.:

76.4 fps

high:

37.3 fps

» With all tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Supreme Commander - FA Bench (2007)

med.:

32.5 fps

high:

32 fps

» With most tested laptops not playable.

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

low:

67.8 92.9 ~ 80 fps

med.:

45.5 48.1 52.2 57.1 ~ 51 fps

high:

23.7 27.1 27.2 27.5 28.9 ~ 27 fps

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

Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)

low:

70 fps

med.:

40.4 41.8 47.2 ~ 43 fps

high:

20 22.9 23 23 ~ 22 fps

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

World in Conflict - Benchmark (2007)

med.:

58 95.1 ~ 77 fps

high:

33 44.6 ~ 39 fps

» With most tested laptops playable in detail settings high.

Command and Conquer III (2007): Not playable with a weaker graphics card. - more...

Call of Juarez Benchmark (2006)

high:

25 fps

» With most tested laptops not playable.

The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion (2006): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...

F.E.A.R. (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...

Quake 4 (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...

World of Warcraft (2005): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings med.. - more...

Counter-Strike Source (2004): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...

Doom 3 (2004): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings ultra. - more...

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999): Playable with a weaker graphics card in detail settings high. - more...

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

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