UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen) vs Xe Arctic Sound

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated544
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGeneration 12.5 (2021−2023)Gen. 12 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameArctic SoundAlder Lake Xe
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data4 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 cores409664
Core clock speed900 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1400 MHz
Number of transistors8,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology10 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Wattno data
Texture fill rate230.4no data
Floating-point processing power7.373 TFLOPSno data
ROPs128no data
TMUs256no 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 4.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno 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 typeHBM2eno data
Maximum RAM amount32 GBno data
Memory bus width4096 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2.4 GB/sno data
Memory bandwidth1,229 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 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 Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Xe Arctic Sound and UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Xe Arctic Sound is a desktop card while UHD Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake 12th Gen) is a notebook one.


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