Arc 7-Cores iGPU vs GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated318
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Xe LPG (2023)
GPU code nameAD107Meteor Lake iGPU
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)14 December 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 cores25607
Core clock speed1140 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1605 MHz2200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology4 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rate128.4no data
Floating-point processing power8.218 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs80no data
Tensor Cores80no data
Ray Tracing Cores20no 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 x16no data
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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount6 GBno data
Memory bus width96 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1750 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth168.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12_2
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 14 December 2023
Chip lithography 4 nm 5 nm

RTX 4050 Max-Q has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

Arc 7-Cores iGPU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q and Arc 7-Cores iGPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q
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Intel Arc 7-Cores iGPU
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