HD Graphics 6EU Mobile vs Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Generation 6.0 (2011)
GPU code nameBeemaSandy Bridge GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years ago)1 May 2011 (13 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 cores12848
Core clock speed497 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speed300 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors930 million504 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate3.9764.800
Floating-point processing power0.1272 TFLOPS0.0768 TFLOPS
ROPs41
TMUs86

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).

InterfaceIGPRing Bus

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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.34.1
OpenGL4.63.1
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 January 2015 1 May 2011
Chip lithography 28 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 45 Watt

R2 Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

HD Graphics 6EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 122.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics and HD Graphics 6EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics is a notebook card while HD Graphics 6EU Mobile is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics
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