UHD Graphics G1 32EU Mobile vs Radeon HD 6870

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking598not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.00no data
Power efficiency2.61no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameBartsIce Lake GT1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date21 October 2010 (14 years ago)29 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$239 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1120256
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm10 nm+
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate50.4014.40
Floating-point processing power2.016 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs5616

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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.0 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16Ring Bus
Length220 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1050 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth134.4 GB/sno data
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1112 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2010 29 May 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 15 Watt

UHD Graphics G1 32EU Mobile has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 906.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6870 and UHD Graphics G1 32EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6870 is a desktop card while UHD Graphics G1 32EU Mobile is a notebook one.


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