UHD Graphics 32EU vs HD Graphics (Braswell)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1198not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 8 (2015−2016)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameBraswellTiger Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2015 (9 years ago)2021 (3 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 cores16256
Core clock speed320 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speed700 MHz1350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data21.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.6912 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

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).

Interfaceno dataRing Bus

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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width64/128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.212 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm

UHD Graphics 32EU has a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Braswell) and UHD Graphics 32EU. We've got no test results to judge.


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