UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen) vs Radeon Vega 3 Efficient

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated542
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Gen. 12 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameRavenAlder Lake Xe
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date26 May 2018 (6 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 cores19264
Core clock speed300 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1400 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate12.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs12no 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).

InterfaceIGPno data
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeSystem Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 outputsno data

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 (12_1)12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 May 2018 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm

UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen) has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 3 Efficient and UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Vega 3 Efficient is a desktop card while UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen) is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon Vega 3 Efficient
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Intel UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen)
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