HD Graphics 520 and Radeon HD 8650M - video card comparison

HD Graphics 520

Radeon HD 8650M

Architecture

Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

Skylake GT2

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Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

September 2015

January 2013

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x1

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Boost clock speed

1050 MHz

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Core clock speed

300 MHz

650 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

189 million

900 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

24

384

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

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Texture fill rate

25.20

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Memory type

DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

32 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

64/128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

System Shared

4500 MHz

Shared memory

+

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (12_1)

11.1

OpenCL

2.1

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OpenGL

4.6

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Shader Model

6.4

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Vulkan

+

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Quick Sync

+

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