UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU) vs Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated753
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data8.62
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameTahitiIce Lake G1 Gen. 11
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date31 January 2012 (12 years ago)28 May 2019 (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 cores153632
Core clock speed925 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt12-25 Watt
Texture fill rate88.80no data
Floating-point processing power2.842 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs96no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR5DDR4
Maximum RAM amount3 GBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth240.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

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

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12_1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 January 2012 28 May 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 12 Watt

UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU) has an age advantage of 7 years, a 180% more advanced lithography process, and 1441.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 and UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 is a desktop card while UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU) is a notebook one.


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