Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G1 vs HD Graphics (Skylake)

Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameSkylake GT1Tiger Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 September 2015 (8 years ago)15 August 2020 (3 years ago)
Current price$390 no data

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 cores1248
Core clock speed300 MHzno data
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm

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/LPDDR3DDR4
Memory bus width64/128 Bitno data
Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Sync++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_1DirectX 12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 15 August 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm

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