Iris Plus Graphics G4 (Ice Lake 48 EU) vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated691
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data11.32
ArchitecturePowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameCedar TrailIce Lake G4 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 cores448
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed640 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

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12_1

Pros & cons summary


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

Iris Plus Graphics G4 (Ice Lake 48 EU) has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 220% more advanced lithography process.

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3650
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Intel Iris Plus Graphics G4 (Ice Lake 48 EU)
Iris Plus Graphics G4 (Ice Lake 48 EU)

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