HD Graphics (Skylake) vs GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking296not rated
Place by popularity78not in top-100
Power efficiency25.72no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Gen. 9 Skylake (2015)
GPU code nameTU117Skylake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 April 2020 (4 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 cores102412
Core clock speed1380 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate99.84no data
Floating-point processing power3.195 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs64no data

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no 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 typeGDDR6DDR3L/LPDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth192.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

Supported technologies

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

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12_1
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.140-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 April 2020 1 September 2015
Chip lithography 12 nm 14 nm

GTX 1650 Mobile has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile and HD Graphics (Skylake). We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile
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