HD Graphics (Skylake) vs Radeon HD 8650M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking874not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Gen. 9 Skylake (2015)
GPU code nameno dataSkylake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2013 (11 years ago)1 September 2015 (9 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 cores38412
Core clock speed650 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data800 MHz
Number of transistors900 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizemedium sizedno 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 typeGDDR5DDR3L/LPDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bit64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed4500 MHzno data
Shared memory-+

Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.112_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2013 1 September 2015
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

HD Graphics (Skylake) has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

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AMD Radeon HD 8650M
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