Radeon RX Vega 2 vs HD Graphics (Braswell)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1193not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 8 (2015−2016)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameBraswellVega Raven Ridge
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2015 (9 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 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 cores16128
Core clock speed320 MHzno data
Boost clock speed700 MHz1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt

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 bus width64/128 Bitno data
Shared memory+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.212_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2015 7 January 2018
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm

RX Vega 2 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Braswell) and Radeon RX Vega 2. We've got no test results to judge.


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