Ice Lake GT2 vs HD Graphics (Haswell)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1142not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 7.5 Haswell (2012)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameHaswell GT1Ice Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2012 (12 years ago)no data

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 cores10512
Core clock speed200 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology22 nm10 nm+
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data32

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 bus width64/128 Bitno data
Shared memory+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 22 nm 10 nm

Ice Lake GT2 has a 120% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Haswell) and Ice Lake GT2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Haswell) is a notebook card while Ice Lake GT2 is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Haswell)
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