UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen) vs HD Graphics (Skylake)

Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 9 Skylake (2015)Gen. 12 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameSkylake GT1Alder Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 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 cores1264
Core clock speed300 MHzno data
Boost clock speed800 MHz1400 MHz
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/LPDDR3no data
Memory bus width64/128 Bitno data
Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Sync++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm

UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen) has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

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