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Qualcomm Adreno 650 vs Qualcomm Adreno 509

Qualcomm Adreno 650

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The Qualcomm Adreno 650 is a smartphone and tablet GPU that is integrated within the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, 865+ and 870 SoCs. The chip will be available from early 2020 and will be used mainly in high-end Android devices. The base clock speed of the GPU is 250 MHz and the boost depends on the used SoC. For the 865 it is 587 MHz, the 865 Plus increased to 846 MHz and the 2021 870 reached 670 MHz.

According to Qualcomm, the Adreno 650 GPU offers a 25% improved performance over the Adreno 640, its predecessor, which is integrated into the Snapdragon 855 SoC. The enhanced performance is achieved by the Adreno 650 having 50% more compute units (ALUs) than the Adreno 640. Furthermore, the clock speed of the pixel shaders was also increased by 50%.

The performance in our first benchmarks of a reference system positions itself above the ARM Mali-G76 MP16 and e.g. in 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme even on the top spot. In GFXBench only the Apple A13 GPU is able to best the Adreno 650 (regarding smartphone GPUs).

As a novelty, the GPU driver can be updated in the Android Play Store. Furthermore, some features are running under the Elite Gaming brand (e.g., 144 Hz display support, desktop forward rendering). 

The Adreno 650 supports Vulkan 1.1, DirectX 12, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 2.0 FP. Furthermore, games and videos can use HDR10+ and Dolby Vision (with a supported display). The 650 supports 2 displays with up to 4K 60 Hz / QHD+ 144 Hz.

Qualcomm Adreno 509

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The Qualcomm Adreno 509 is a mobile graphics card for mid-range smartphones and tablets (mostly Android based). It is included in the lower end Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 SoCs and based on the Adreno 500 architecture (like the Adreno 520 in the S820, which should be fully compatible in software).

The GPU supports modern standards like Vulkan 1.0 (according to Wikipedia), OpenGL ES 3.1 + AE (3.2 in other sources), OpenCL 2.0 and DirectX 12 (FL 12.1 according to Wikipedia, 11.1 according to Qualcomm). Furthermore, the GPU supports Universal Bandwidth Compression (UBWC) to save memory bandwidth.

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ArchitectureAdreno 600Adreno 500
Core Speed250 - 670 (Boost) MHz
Shared Memoryyesyes
APIDirectX 12, OpenGL ES 3.2DirectX 12.1, OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan
technology7 nm14 nm
FeaturesOpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0, DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.1OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0, Direct3D 12 (FL 12_1)
Date of Announcement04.12.2019 08.05.2017
CPU in Adreno 650GPU Base SpeedGPU Boost / Turbo
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G8 x 2420 MHz, 5 W? MHz670 MHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ (Plus)8 x 2420 MHz, 5 W250 MHz646 MHz
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8658 x 2420 MHz, 5 W250 MHz587 MHz
min. - max.250 MHz587 - 670 MHz
CPU in Adreno 509GPU Base SpeedGPU Boost / Turbo
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6368 x 1800 MHz? MHz? MHz

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited
min: 7970     avg: 9563     median: 9684 (42%)     max: 11492 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Graphics
min: 11617     avg: 13051     median: 12858 (28%)     max: 16809 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited
min: 6960     avg: 8089     median: 8085 (40%)     max: 8975 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Graphics
min: 8593     avg: 9728     median: 9498 (28%)     max: 11999 Points
GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 4K Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen
min: 9.7     avg: 9.9     median: 10 (4%)     max: 10 fps
GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen
min: 18     avg: 21.1     median: 21 (4%)     max: 27 fps
min: 2.2     avg: 2.4     median: 2.2 (0%)     max: 3.5 fps
GFXBench - GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Offscreen
min: 27     avg: 55     median: 55 (4%)     max: 67 fps
GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Offscreen
min: 39     avg: 52.6     median: 51 (6%)     max: 62 fps
GFXBench 3.1 - GFXBench Manhattan ES 3.1 Offscreen
min: 67     avg: 87.2     median: 88 (2%)     max: 103 fps
GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen
min: 96     avg: 125.1     median: 125 (7%)     max: 151 fps
GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + Qualcomm Adreno 650
GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16
min: 168     avg: 209.5     median: 206 (2%)     max: 266 fps
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + Qualcomm Adreno 509
Basemark GPU 1.2 - Basemark GPU 1.2 Vulkan Official Medium Offscreen 1080
min: 72.6     avg: 75.5     median: 75 (0%)     max: 78.57 fps
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 GPU OpenCL
2688 Points (1%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 GPU Vulkan
2532 Points (1%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 2D Graphics Tests
54110 Points (54%)
min: 5536     avg: 5562     median: 5561.5 (6%)     max: 5587 Points
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 3D Graphics Tests
42627 Points (75%)
min: 1582     avg: 1740     median: 1740 (3%)     max: 1898 Points
Power Consumption - GFXBench Aztec Ruins Normal Tier Offscreen Power Consumption 150cd *
min: 5.18     avg: 8.2     median: 7.6 (3%)     max: 12.7 Watt

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Adreno 650 → 100% n=13

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Adreno 509 → 12% n=13

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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 detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Diablo Immortal

Diablo Immortal

2022
low Medium
100%
Adreno 650:
60  fps
ultra Ultra
100%
Adreno 650:
60  fps
League of Legends: Wild Rift

League of Legends: Wild Rift

2020
low
100%
Adreno 650:
60 119 ~ 90 fps
high
100%
Adreno 650:
60 117 ~ 89 fps
ultra
100%
Adreno 650:
60 118 ~ 89 fps
Call of Duty Mobile

Call of Duty Mobile

2020
ultra
100%
Adreno 650:
60  fps
Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact

2020
low
100%
Adreno 650:
60 60 ~ 60 fps
ultra
100%
Adreno 650:
59 60 60 60 ~ 60 fps
Armajet

Armajet

2020
high
100%
Adreno 650:
30 30 30 52 59 60 60 60 60 62 64 85 91 114 117 119 120 ~ 71 fps
PUBG Mobile

PUBG Mobile

2018
low
100%
Adreno 650:
40 40 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 90 90 ~ 61 fps
44%
Adreno 509:
25 25 26 30 ~ 27 fps
med.
100%
Adreno 650:
40 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 ~ 58 fps
43%
Adreno 509:
25 25 ~ 25 fps
high
100%
Adreno 650:
30 30 30 30 30 39 40 40 40 40 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 ~ 53 fps
57%
Adreno 509:
30  fps
ultra
100%
Adreno 650:
40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 ~ 40 fps
Arena of Valor

Arena of Valor

2018
low
100%
Adreno 650:
60 60 62 ~ 61 fps
61%
Adreno 509:
31 31 31 32 59 ~ 37 fps
ultra
100%
Adreno 650:
60 60 61 ~ 60 fps
60%
Adreno 509:
30 31 31 31 31 59 ~ 36 fps
Shadow Fight 3

Shadow Fight 3

2018
low
Adreno 509:
57 59 ~ 58 fps
high
Adreno 509:
58  fps
Dead Trigger 2

Dead Trigger 2

2013
high
100%
Adreno 650:
60 60 90 105 142 144 ~ 100 fps
45%
Adreno 509:
30 60 ~ 45 fps
Asphalt 8: Airborne

Asphalt 8: Airborne

2013
high
Adreno 509:
30  fps
Asphalt 9: Legends

Asphalt 9: Legends

2013
low
100%
Adreno 650:
30 30 60 60 ~ 45 fps
64%
Adreno 509:
28 28 30 30 ~ 29 fps
high
100%
Adreno 650:
30 30 30 30 30 30 30 58 60 60 60 ~ 41 fps
71%
Adreno 509:
28 30 30 ~ 29 fps
Real Racing 3

Real Racing 3

2013
high
100%
Adreno 650:
60 144 ~ 102 fps

Average Gaming Qualcomm Adreno 650 → 100%

Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 100%

Average Gaming Qualcomm Adreno 509 → 56%

Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 55%

Qualcomm Adreno 650lowmed.highultraQHD4K
Diablo Immortal6060
League of Legends: Wild Rift908989
Call of Duty Mobile60
Genshin Impact6060
Armajet71
PUBG Mobile61585340
Arena of Valor6160
Dead Trigger 2100
Asphalt 9: Legends4541
Real Racing 3102
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Qualcomm Adreno 509lowmed.highultraQHD4K
PUBG Mobile272530
Arena of Valor3736
Shadow Fight 35858
Dead Trigger 245
Asphalt 8: Airborne30
Asphalt 9: Legends2929
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