Radeon Vega 3 Efficient vs HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge)

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking1157not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
ArchitectureGen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameIvy Bridge GT1Raven
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2012 (11 years ago)26 May 2018 (6 years ago)
Current price$168 $562

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6192
Core clock speed350 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data12.00

Form factor & compatibility

Information on HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) and Radeon Vega 3 Efficient compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interfaceno dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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+no data

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkanno data1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2012 26 May 2018
Chip lithography 22 nm 14 nm

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) and Radeon Vega 3 Efficient. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 3 Efficient is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge)
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AMD Radeon Vega 3 Efficient
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