Radeon HD 8280 Mobile IGP vs R2 Mobile Graphics

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)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameBeemaKalindi
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years ago)18 September 2013 (11 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 cores128128
Core clock speed497 MHz450 MHz
Boost clock speed300 MHzno data
Number of transistors930 million1,178 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate3.9763.600
Floating-point processing power0.1272 TFLOPS0.1152 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

InterfaceIGPIGP

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
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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.36.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 January 2015 18 September 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 15 Watt

R2 Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 1 year.

HD 8280 Mobile IGP, on the other hand, has 566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics and Radeon HD 8280 Mobile IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics
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