Arc 7-Cores iGPU vs Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake)

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Xe LPG (2023)
GPU code nameAlder Lake XeMeteor Lake iGPU
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)14 December 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 cores647
Boost clock speed1400 MHz2200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology10 nm5 nm

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.

Shared memory+-

Supported technologies

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Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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DirectXDirectX 12_112_2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 14 December 2023
Chip lithography 10 nm 5 nm

Arc 7-Cores iGPU has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

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