Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU vs GeForce FX 5900 XT

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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
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameNV35Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 May 2003 (21 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 coresno data640
Core clock speed400 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors135 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology130 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate3.20044.00
Floating-point processing powerno data1.408 TFLOPS
ROPs420
TMUs840

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 3.0 x1
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x Molexno 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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed350 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 May 2003 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 130 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU has an age advantage of 17 years, a 1200% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

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