Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile vs HD Graphics (Skylake)

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 9 Skylake (2015)Xe-LPG (2023)
GPU code nameSkylake GT1Meteor Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)14 December 2023 (less than a year 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 cores12384
Core clock speed300 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data28 Watt
Texture fill rateno data43.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.382 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data24

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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3System 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 14 December 2023
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm

Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Skylake) and Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Skylake) is a notebook card while Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile is a desktop one.


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