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's GPUs (see Intel Graphics Technology) and motherboard graphics chipsets in table form. In 1982, Intel licensed the NEC μPD7220 and announced it as the Intel 82720 Graphics Display Controller.

First generation

Intel's first generation GPUs:

Second generation

Intel marketed its second generation using the brand Extreme Graphics. These chips added support for texture combiners allowing support for OpenGL 1.3.

Third generation

Intel's first DirectX 9 GPUs with hardware Pixel Shader 2.0 support.

Gen4

The last generation of motherboard integrated graphics. Full hardware DirectX 10 support starting with GMA X3500. * Each EU has a 128-bit wide FPU that natively executes four 32-bit operations per clock cycle.

Gen5

* Integrated graphics chip moved from motherboard into the processor. * Improved gaming performance * Can access CPU's cache * Each EU has a 128-bit wide FPU that natively executes eight 16-bit or four 32-bit operations per clock cycle. * Hierarchical-Z compression and fast Z clear

Gen6

* Each EU has a 128-bit wide FPU that natively executes eight 16-bit or four 32-bit operations per clock cycle. * Double peak performance per clock cycle compared to previous generation due to fused multiply-add instruction. * The entire GPU shares a sampler and an ROP.

Gen7

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FP32 Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point. A floating- ...

ALUs : EUs : Subslices * Each EU contains 2 × 128-bit FPUs and has double peak performance per clock cycle compared to previous generation. One supports FP32 and FP64, and the other supports only FP32. Since the throughput of FP64 instructions are 2 cycles, the FP64 FLOPS is a quarter of the FP32 FLOPS. Only one of the FPUs supports 32-bit integer instructions. * Each Subslice contains 6 or 8 (or 10 in Haswell GPUs) EUs and a sampler, and has 64 KB shared memory.

Gen8

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ALUs : EUs : Subslices * Each EU contains 2 x 128-bit FPUs. One supports 32-bit and 64-bit integer, FP16, FP32, FP64, and transcendental math functions, and the other supports only 32-bit and 64-bit integer, FP16 and FP32. Thus the FP16 (or 16-bit integer) FLOPS is twice the FP32 (or 32-bit integer) FLOPS. Since the throughput of FP64 instructions is one per 2 cycles, the FP64 FLOPS is a quarter of the FP32 FLOPS. * Each Subslice contains 8 EUs and a sampler (4 tex/clk), and has 64 KB shared memory. *

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* For Windows 10, the total system memory that is available for graphics use is half the system memory. For Windows 8, it is up to 3840 MB. On Windows 7, it is up to about 1.7 GB through

DVMT Dynamic video memory technology (DVMT) is an Intel technology allowing dynamic allocation of system memory for use as video memory, giving more resources for 2D/3D graphics 3D computer graphics, or “3D graphics,” sometimes called CGI, ...

Gen9

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ALUs : EUs : Subslices * Each EU contains 2 x 128-bit FPUs. One supports 32-bit and 64-bit integer, FP16, FP32, FP64, and transcendental math functions, and the other supports only 32-bit and 64-bit integer, FP16 and FP32. Thus the FP16 (or 16-bit integer) FLOPS is twice the FP32 (or 32-bit integer) FLOPS. Since the throughput of FP64 instructions are 2 cycles, the FP64 FLOPS is a quarter (eighth in Apollo Lake) of the FP32 FLOPS. * Each Subslice contains 8 EUs (two of which are disabled in GT1) and a sampler (4 tex/clk), and has 64 KB shared memory. *

* For Windows 10, the total system memory that is available for graphics use is half the system memory. For Windows 8, it is up to 3840 MB. On Windows 7, it is up to about 1.7 GB through DVMT. * WDDM 2.2 support with Windows Mixed Reality begins with KabyLake-based GPUs.

Gen11

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ALUs : EUs : Subslices * Each EU contains 2 x 128-bit FPUs. One supports 32-bit and 64-bit integer, FP16, FP32, FP64, and transcendental math functions, and the other supports only 32-bit and 64-bit integer, FP16 and FP32. Thus the FP16 (or 16-bit integer) FLOPS is twice the FP32 (or 32-bit integer) FLOPS. Since the throughput of FP64 instructions are 2 cycles, the FP64 FLOPS is a quarter of the FP32 FLOPS. * Each Subslice contains 8 EUs and a sampler (4 tex/clk), and has 64 KB shared memory. *

Gen12

Intel Xe is a

GPGPU General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditiona ...

and

dGPU A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or mistakenly GPU) is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display device, such as a computer mo ...

product line first released in 2020, in the mobile Tiger Lake line and

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, Alder Lake and Raptor Lake line. * ¹

ALUs: EUs: Subslices

Arc Alchemist

Desktop

Mobile

Workstation

PowerVR based

Notes

;Acronyms: The following acronyms are used throughout the article. * EU: Execution Unit * iDCT: Inverse discrete cosine transform * iMDCT: Inverse

modified discrete cosine transform The modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) is a transform based on the type-IV discrete cosine transform (DCT-IV), with the additional property of being lapped: it is designed to be performed on consecutive blocks of a larger dataset, where ...

* LF: In-loop

deblocking filter A deblocking filter is a video filter applied to decoded compressed video to improve visual quality and prediction performance by smoothing the sharp edges which can form between macroblocks when block coding techniques are used. The filter ai ...

* MC:

Motion compensation Motion compensation in computing, is an algorithmic technique used to predict a frame in a video, given the previous and/or future frames by accounting for motion of the camera and/or objects in the video. It is employed in the encoding of video d ...

* VLD:

Variable-length code In coding theory a variable-length code is a code which maps source symbols to a ''variable'' number of bits. Variable-length codes can allow sources to be compressed and decompressed with ''zero'' error ( lossless data compression) and still b ...

(sometimes referred to as slice-level acceleration) * WMV9: Windows Media Video 9 codec ;Full hardware acceleration techniques: Intel graphic processing units employ the following techniques in

hardware acceleration Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose central processing unit (CPU). Any transformation of data that can be calcula ...

digital video Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols eac ...

playback. ;Calculation: The raw performance of integrated GPU, in

FLOPS In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate me ...

, can be calculated as follows: : :For example, the HD Graphics 3000 is rated at 125 GFLOPS, which is consistent with the formula (12 * 4 * 2 * 1,300 MHz).

References

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Graphics processing units A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mob ...

Computing comparisons Lists of microprocessors *Intel Graphics processing units