UHD Graphics 630 Mobile vs Radeon HD 7850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking452not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.61no data
Power efficiency5.31no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 9.5 (2016−2020)
GPU code namePitcairnCoffee Lake GT2
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date5 March 2012 (12 years ago)3 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1024192
Core clock speedno data350 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm+++
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate55.0424.00
Floating-point processing power1.761 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs323
TMUs6424

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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16Ring Bus
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/sno data
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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan+1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 March 2012 3 April 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 15 Watt

UHD Graphics 630 Mobile has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 766.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7850 and UHD Graphics 630 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7850 is a desktop card while UHD Graphics 630 Mobile is a notebook one.


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