GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs Iris Plus Graphics G5 (Ice Lake 48 EU)

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated234
Place by popularitynot in top-10045
Power efficiencyno data21.79
ArchitectureIntel Gen. 11 (Ice Lake)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)11 May 2021 (3 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 cores482048
Core clock speed300 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1057 MHz
Manufacturing process technologyno data8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data67.65
Floating-point processing powerno data4.329 TFLOPS
ROPsno data40
TMUsno data64
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeDDR4GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Iris Plus Graphics G5 (Ice Lake 48 EU) and GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Iris Plus Graphics G5 (Ice Lake 48 EU)
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile
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