UHD Graphics 48EU vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950

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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
ArchitectureGen. 3 (2005)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGMA 950Alder Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2005 (19 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 cores4384
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed250 MHz1150 MHz
Manufacturing process technology130 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rateno data27.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.8832 TFLOPS
ROPsno data12
TMUsno data24

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).

Interfaceno dataRing Bus
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory-no 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2005 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 130 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 45 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 has 542.9% lower power consumption.

UHD Graphics 48EU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 16 years, and a 1200% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 and UHD Graphics 48EU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 is a notebook card while UHD Graphics 48EU is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
Intel UHD Graphics 48EU
UHD Graphics 48EU

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