UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen) vs GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated542
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Gen. 12 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameGA104Alder Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 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 cores614464
Core clock speed780 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1245 MHz1400 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattno data
Texture fill rate239.0no data
Floating-point processing power15.3 TFLOPSno data
ROPs96no data
TMUs192no data
Tensor Cores192no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no 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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth384.0 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 Ultimate (12_2)12_1
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2-
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 8 nm 10 nm

RTX 3080 Max-Q has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen), on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q and UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen). We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q
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