Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q vs HD Graphics (Skylake)

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated252
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data24.69
ArchitectureGen. 9 Skylake (2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameSkylake GT1TU106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 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 cores122304
Core clock speed300 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1215 MHz
Number of transistorsno data10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt
Texture fill rateno data175.0
Floating-point processing powerno data5.599 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data144
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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 data6 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 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_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 27 May 2019
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm

RTX 3000 Max-Q has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Skylake) and Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Skylake) is a notebook graphics card while Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Skylake)
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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q
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