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

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	542
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)	Gen. 12 (2021−2023)
GPU code name	Alder Lake Xe	Alder Lake Xe
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	4 January 2022 (2 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 cores	64	64
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	10 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.

Shared memory

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Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync

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API compatibility

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

DirectX

DirectX 12_1

12_1

Pros & cons summary

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