Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU vs GRID A100A

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameGA100Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date14 May 2020 (4 years 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 cores6912768
Core clock speed900 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1005 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors54,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)400 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate434.252.80
Floating-point processing power13.89 TFLOPS1.69 TFLOPS
ROPs19224
TMUs43248
Tensor Cores432no 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16Ring Bus
WidthIGPno 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 typeHBM2eSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount48 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width6144 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1215 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth1,866 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2020 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 400 Watt 15 Watt

GRID A100A has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, and 2566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GRID A100A and Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GRID A100A is a workstation card while Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU is a notebook one.


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