Iris Xe Graphics 80EU vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking241not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation68.60no data
Power efficiency26.36no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameTU116Alder Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 April 2019 (5 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 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 cores1536640
Core clock speed1140 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1335 MHz1300 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate128.252.00
Floating-point processing power4.101 TFLOPS1.664 TFLOPS
ROPs4820
TMUs9640

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16Ring Bus
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount6 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2019 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 12 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 45 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics 80EU has an age advantage of 2 years, a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q and Iris Xe Graphics 80EU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q is a notebook card while Iris Xe Graphics 80EU is a desktop one.


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