Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs FirePro W5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking518not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.38no data
Power efficiency7.14no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code namePitcairnAlder Lake Xe
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date7 August 2012 (12 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores76864
Core clock speed825 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1400 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate39.60no data
Floating-point processing power1.267 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs48no 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 x16no data
Length183 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Form factorfull height / 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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth102.4 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x 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.

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 7 August 2012 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W5000 and Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W5000 is a workstation card while Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) is a notebook one.


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