Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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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
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameGP104Alder Lake Xe
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 December 2018 (6 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 cores192064
Core clock speed1506 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1683 MHz1400 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology16 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattno data
Texture fill rate202.0no data
Floating-point processing power6.463 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs120no 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 3.0 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5Xno data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1001 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth256.3 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, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

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 (12_1)DirectX 12_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 December 2018 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 16 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X is a desktop card while Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) is a notebook one.


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