ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

What is the difference between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

MadisonGPU NameG71
Madison PRO
(216-0772000)
Model numberG71-N-A2
TeraScale 2ArchitectureCurie
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size90 nm
627 millionTransistors278 million
104 mm²Die Size196 mm²

Graphics Card

Jan 7th, 2010Release DateMay 1st, 2006
Manhattan
(Mobility HD 5600)
FamilyGeForce 7 PCIe
(7900)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
M9xPredecessorGeForce 6 PCIe
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size256 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
128 bitMemory Bus256 bit
25.60 GB/sBandwidth42.24 GB/s

Performance

3.600 GPixel/sPixel fillrate7.200 GPixel/s
9.000 GTexel/sTexture fillrate9.000 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory Clock660 MHz
1320 Mbps effective
450 MHzGPU Clock450 MHz

Render Config

20TMUs20
8ROPs16

Board Design

15 WThermal design power (TDP)49 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

11.2 (11_0)DirectX9.0c (9_3)
4.4OpenGL2.1
1.2OpenCLN/A
N/AVulkanN/A
5.0Shader Model3.0