Radeon 890M 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 rated249
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureGen. 9 Skylake (2015)RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameSkylake GT1Strix Point
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)July 2024 (recently)

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 cores121024
Core clock speed300 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz2900 MHz
Number of transistorsno data34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data185.6
Floating-point processing powerno data5.939 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno dataIGP
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/LPDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width64/128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

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

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 data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 4 nm

Radeon 890M has a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Skylake) and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Skylake) is a notebook card while Radeon 890M is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Skylake)
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AMD Radeon 890M
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