Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU Mobile vs GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameAD103Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 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 cores9728768
Core clock speed930 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1455 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors45,900 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology4 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate442.352.80
Floating-point processing power28.31 TFLOPS1.69 TFLOPS
ROPs11224
TMUs30448
Tensor Cores304no data
Ray Tracing Cores76no 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 x16Ring Bus
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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/sno 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


Recency 3 January 2023 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 4 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 15 Watt

RTX 4090 Max-Q has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 150% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 433.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q and Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q is a notebook card while Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU Mobile is a desktop one.


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