UHD Graphics 730 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated685
Place by popularitynot in top-10094
Power efficiencyno data19.34
ArchitectureGen. 5 Arrandale (2010)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGMA HDRaptor Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores12192
Core clock speed500 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology45 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data18.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.5952 TFLOPS
ROPsno data6
TMUsno data12

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 dataMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX1012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 45 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

UHD Graphics 730 has an age advantage of 12 years, a 350% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics and UHD Graphics 730. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics is a notebook card while UHD Graphics 730 is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
Intel UHD Graphics 730
UHD Graphics 730

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