Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics vs HD Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1145not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.53no data
ArchitectureGeneration 7.0 (2012−2013)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameIvy Bridge GT1Spectre Lite
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 April 2012 (12 years ago)17 February 2014 (10 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 cores48384
Core clock speed650 MHz554 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors392 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate6.30013.30
Floating-point processing power0.1008 TFLOPS0.4255 TFLOPS
ROPs18
TMUs624

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16IGP
WidthIGPno data

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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.0
OpenGL4.04.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.801.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2012 17 February 2014
Chip lithography 22 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 90 Watt

HD Graphics has a 27.3% more advanced lithography process, and 157.1% lower power consumption.

R7 Mobile Graphics, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics and Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics is a desktop card while Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics is a notebook one.


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Intel HD Graphics
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