Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs FirePro W2100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking845not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.27no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameOlandAlder Lake Xe
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date12 August 2014 (10 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 cores32064
Core clock speed630 MHzno data
Boost clock speed680 MHz1400 MHz
Number of transistors950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Wattno data
Texture fill rate13.60no data
Floating-point processing power0.4352 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs20no data

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8no data
Width1-slotno data
Form factorlow profile / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed900 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/sno data
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 Connectors2x DisplayPortno data
DisplayPort count2no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration+-
Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)DirectX 12_1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 August 2014 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W2100 and Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W2100 is a workstation card while Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) is a notebook one.


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AMD FirePro W2100
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