GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q vs HD Graphics (Skylake)

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated137
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data31.06
ArchitectureGen. 9 Skylake (2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameSkylake GT1TU104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)2 April 2020 (4 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 cores122560
Core clock speed300 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1155 MHz
Number of transistorsno data13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data184.8
Floating-point processing powerno data5.914 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data160
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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 sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data352.0 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 dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+
Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 2 April 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm

RTX 2070 Super Max-Q has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Skylake) and GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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