Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs UHD Graphics G1

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGeneration 11.0 (2019−2021)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameIce Lake GT1Alder Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 May 2019 (5 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 cores25664
Core clock speed300 MHzno data
Boost clock speed900 MHz1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology10 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate14.40no data
Floating-point processing power0.4608 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs16no 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 x1no 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 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 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)DirectX 12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.1.97-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 May 2019 4 January 2022

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between UHD Graphics G1 and Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake). We've got no test results to judge.


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