Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking222not rated
Place by popularity60not in top-100
Power efficiency28.23no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameGN20-P0Alder Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 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 cores204864
Core clock speed1238 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)no data

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizelargeno 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed12000 MHzno data
Shared memory-+

Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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DirectX12_2DirectX 12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 8 nm 10 nm

RTX 3050 4GB Mobile has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake), on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake). We've got no test results to judge.


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