Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G4 vs Maxwell GPU Surface Book

Primary details

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

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ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameSurface BookTiger Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2015 (10 years ago)15 August 2020 (5 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 cores38480
Core clock speed954 MHzno data
Boost clock speed993 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology28 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 typeGDDR5DDR4
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed5012 MHzno data
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Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_0)DirectX 12_1
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Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2015 15 August 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm

Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G4 has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

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