Iris Xe Graphics 80EU vs GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking226not rated
Place by popularity74not in top-100
Power efficiency27.99no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGN20-P0Raptor Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 May 2021 (3 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores2048640
Core clock speed1238 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (35 - 80 Watt TGP)15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data58.00
Floating-point processing powerno data1.856 TFLOPS
ROPsno data20
TMUsno data40

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataRing Bus

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 amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed12000 MHzSystem Shared
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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_212 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 May 2021 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 15 Watt

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

Iris Xe Graphics 80EU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile and Iris Xe Graphics 80EU. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Mobile
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