Iris Xe Graphics 96EU Mobile vs GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking121not rated
Place by popularity41not in top-100
Power efficiency53.95no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameAD107Raptor Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores2560768
Core clock speed1455 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1755 MHz1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology4 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate140.472.00
Floating-point processing power8.986 TFLOPS2.304 TFLOPS
ROPs3224
TMUs8048
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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16Ring 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 amount6 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width96 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed16000 GB/sSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth192.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 4 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

RTX 4050 Mobile has a 150% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics 96EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and Iris Xe Graphics 96EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is a notebook card while Iris Xe Graphics 96EU Mobile is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
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