HD Graphics (Skylake) vs Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1094not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.76no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Gen. 9 Skylake (2015)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeSkylake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 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 cores12812
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors3100 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno 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 typeno dataDDR3L/LPDDR3
Memory bus width64 Bit64/128 Bit
Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12_1
Vulkan+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 1 September 2015
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

R2 (Stoney Ridge) has an age advantage of 9 months.

HD Graphics (Skylake), on the other hand, has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge) and HD Graphics (Skylake). We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R2 (Stoney Ridge)
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