Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) vs Graphics G1

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) with 48 pipelines and 384 shaders against the 1 year and 3 months older Graphics G1 that utilizes 32 pipelines and 256 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of UHD Graphics G1 over UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
Reasons to consider the Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
  • Performs significantly better (up to 66%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (1.1 vs 0.5 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 71% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (8K vs 4K)
  • Has 50% more shading units (384 vs 256)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
12
-
-
-
11
-
-
-
The Witcher 3
-
-
-
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
13
9
-
-
11
-
-
-
Far Cry 6
-
-
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
-
-
-
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
-
-
-
-
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - -
1080p Ultra - -
1440p Ultra - -
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 741 386
Fire Strike 2345 1173
Wild Life Extreme 1606 819
Night Raid 10085 5438
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 18.4 img/sec 9.94 img/sec
Face Detection 10.7 img/sec 5.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.3 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.47 Gpixels/sec 0.24 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.3 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.1 Gpixels/sec 0.05 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 21.5 Gpixels/sec 14 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1269.5 FPS 852 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G2D Mark - 324
DirectX 11 - 11 FPS
DirectX 12 - 6 FPS
GPU Compute - 813 Ops/s

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU)
No benchmark results yet
Intel UHD Graphics G1
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-01-22 (bingus)Geekbench 6 OpenCL5884
📘 2025-12-15 (Adam)Geekbench 6 OpenCL3894

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 893 325
Image Segmentation (HP) 1369 598
Image Super Resolution (Q) 1052 884
Face Detection (HP) 2087 821
Pose Estimation (Q) 3981 2386
Text Classification (SP) 807 274
Machine Translation (HP) 895 333
Object Detection (SP) 944 369
Depth Estimation (Q) 2678 1290
Style Transfer (SP) 13752 6941
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 (48 EU) and Graphics G1

General

Vendor Intel Intel
Build Integrated Integrated
Released August 15, 2020 May 28, 2019
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Generation 12.1 Generation 11
GPU Codename Tiger Lake GT2 Ice Lake G1 Gen. 11
Recommended CPU - - Intel Core i3 1005G1 or above
Used in CPUs - Intel Core 5 210H
- Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX
- Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX
- Intel Processor U300
- Intel Core i5 13420H
- Intel Core i5 12450H
- Intel Core i3 1125G4
- Intel Pentium Gold 7505
- and 1 more
- Intel Core i3 1005G1
- Intel Core i5 1035G1
Laptop GPU ranking (131st and 149th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 400 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 800-1400 MHz (configurable) 900-1050 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 384 256
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 24 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 12 8
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 32
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores No -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 10-17 GPixel/s 7-8 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 19-34 GTexel/s 14-17 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
0.6-1.1 TFLOPS
0.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface Ring Bus Ring Bus
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing Intel Intel
Fabrication Process 10 nm 10 nm
Die Size 146 mm² -
Max. Temperature - 100°C

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Memory Size System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
Memory Clock System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
Effective Memory Speed System RAM Dependent System RAM Dependent
ECC No -

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 2.1 2.2
Ray Tracing No -
DLSS No -

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