Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU vs GeForce 8600 GT

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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
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameG84Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)2 September 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 no data

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 cores32640
Core clock speed540 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors289 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology80 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)47 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate8.64044.00
Floating-point processing power0.07616 TFLOPS1.408 TFLOPS
ROPs820
TMUs1640

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 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x1
Length170 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed700 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/sno data

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 DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.4
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 80 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU has an age advantage of 13 years, a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 213.3% lower power consumption.

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