Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G1 vs HD Graphics (Haswell)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1142not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 7.5 Haswell (2012)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameHaswell GT1Tiger Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 October 2012 (11 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 cores1048
Core clock speed200 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology22 nm10 nm

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 dataDDR4
Memory bus width64/128 Bitno data
Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1DirectX 12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2012 15 August 2020
Chip lithography 22 nm 10 nm

Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G1 has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 120% more advanced lithography process.

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