Steam Deck GPU vs Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking611not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.89no data
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameIce Lake G7 Gen. 11Van Gogh
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date28 May 2019 (5 years ago)25 February 2022 (2 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 cores64512
Core clock speed300 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,400 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-25 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data51.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.638 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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).

Lengthno data298 mm
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR4LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data88 GB/s
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 Connectorsno data1x USB Type-C

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 May 2019 25 February 2022
Chip lithography 10 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) has 25% lower power consumption.

Steam Deck GPU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) and Steam Deck GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) is a notebook card while Steam Deck GPU is a desktop one.


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Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU)
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