Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile vs GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 55 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 30.63 | no data |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) | Generation 12.1 (2020−2021) |
| GPU code name | AD106 | Tiger Lake GT2 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 3 January 2023 (1 year ago) | 2 September 2020 (4 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 cores | 4608 | 384 |
| Core clock speed | 1395 MHz | 300 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1695 MHz | 1100 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | 10 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 115 Watt | 15 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 244.1 | 26.40 |
| Floating-point processing power | 15.62 TFLOPS | 0.8448 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 48 | 12 |
| TMUs | 144 | 24 |
| Tensor Cores | 144 | no data |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 36 | no 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 size | large | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | Ring 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 type | GDDR6 | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 256.0 GB/s | no 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 Connectors | Portable Device Dependent | Portable Device Dependent |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | 6.6 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 3 January 2023 | 2 September 2020 |
| Chip lithography | 4 nm | 10 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 115 Watt | 15 Watt |
RTX 4070 Mobile has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 150% more advanced lithography process.
Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 666.7% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile and Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.
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