Iris Xe Graphics G4 vs Arc 8-Core iGPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking299not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureXe LPG (2023)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameMeteor Lake iGPUTiger Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date14 December 2023 (1 year ago)2 September 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 cores8384
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed2300 MHz1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data26.40
Floating-point processing powerno data0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPsno data12
TMUsno data24

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 dataPCIe 3.0 x1

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-+

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 dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_212 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 December 2023 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 5 nm 10 nm

Arc 8-Core iGPU has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Arc 8-Core iGPU and Iris Xe Graphics G4. We've got no test results to judge.


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