Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G4 vs GeForce GTX 280M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking978not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.38no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameG92Tiger Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2009 (15 years ago)15 August 2020 (4 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 cores12880
Core clock speed585 MHzno data
Number of transistors754 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate37.44no data
Floating-point processing power0.3745 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops562no data
ROPs16no data
TMUs64no 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfaceMXM-IVno data
SLI options+-
MXM TypeMXM 3.0 Type-Bno 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 typeGDDR3DDR4
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speedUp to 950 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth61 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 ConnectorsHDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGAno data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIFno data

Supported technologies

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

Power management8.0no data
Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)DirectX 12_1
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL2.1no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2009 15 August 2020
Chip lithography 65 nm 10 nm

Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G4 has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 550% more advanced lithography process.

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