Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU vs GeForce RTX 3070

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking38not rated
Place by popularity37not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation59.50no data
Power efficiency19.01no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameGA104Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)2 September 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 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 cores5888768
Core clock speed1500 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1725 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)220 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate317.452.80
Floating-point processing power20.31 TFLOPS1.69 TFLOPS
ROPs9624
TMUs18448
Tensor Cores184no data
Ray Tracing Cores46no 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 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x1
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth448.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.2
CUDA8.5-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 8 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 220 Watt 15 Watt

RTX 3070 has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU, on the other hand, has 1366.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 and Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU. We've got no test results to judge.


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