Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G1 vs Qualcomm Adreno 685

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking827not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency24.88no data
Architectureno dataGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameno dataTiger Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 December 2018 (6 years ago)15 August 2020 (4 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 coresno data48
Manufacturing process technology7 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Wattno data

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 typeno dataDDR4
Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12DirectX 12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 December 2018 15 August 2020
Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm

Qualcomm Adreno 685 has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G1, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Qualcomm Adreno 685 and Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G1. We've got no test results to judge.


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Qualcomm Adreno 685
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Intel Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G1
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