UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU) vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated745
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data8.72
ArchitecturePowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameCedar TrailIce Lake G1 Gen. 11
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 November 2011 (13 years ago)28 May 2019 (5 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 cores432
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology32 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data12-25 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 typeno dataDDR4
Shared memory++

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.

DirectXno data12_1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 1
UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU) 8750
+874900%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2011 28 May 2019
Chip lithography 32 nm 10 nm

UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU) has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 220% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600 and UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU). We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600
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