Radeon R2E Mobile Graphics vs HD Graphics 520

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking865not rated
Place by popularity36not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameSkylake GT2Beema
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)28 January 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 cores24128
Core clock speed300 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors189 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate25.202.400
Floating-point processing power0.4032 gflops0.0768 gflops

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x1IGP

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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4System Shared
Maximum RAM amount32 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64/128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

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

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1
Vulkan+1.2.170

Pros & cons summary


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

HD Graphics 520 has an age advantage of 7 months, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 520 and Radeon R2E Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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