UHD Graphics 48EU vs Iris Plus Graphics G4 (Ice Lake 48 EU)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking689not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency11.32no data
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameIce Lake G4 Gen. 11Alder Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date28 May 2019 (5 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 cores48384
Core clock speed300 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1150 MHz
Manufacturing process technology10 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-25 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rateno data27.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.8832 TFLOPS
ROPsno data12
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 typeDDR4System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory++

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 28 May 2019 4 January 2022
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 45 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics G4 (Ice Lake 48 EU) has 275% lower power consumption.

UHD Graphics 48EU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Iris Plus Graphics G4 (Ice Lake 48 EU) and UHD Graphics 48EU. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Iris Plus Graphics G4 (Ice Lake 48 EU)
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