HD Graphics 16EU Mobile vs Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU

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
Architectureno dataGeneration 5.75 (2010)
GPU code nameno dataIronlake
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date17 January 2023 (1 year ago)10 January 2010 (14 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 cores3896
Core clock speedno data133 MHz
Boost clock speedno data500 MHz
Number of transistorsno data177 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)53 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data8.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.096 TFLOPS
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data16

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataQPI

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 typeLPDDR5-6400System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data10.1
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 January 2023 10 January 2010
Chip lithography 5 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 53 Watt 35 Watt

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 800% more advanced lithography process.

HD Graphics 16EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 51.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU and HD Graphics 16EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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