T550 Mobile 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.

Place in the rankingnot rated396
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data37.23
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameAlder Lake XeTU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)May 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 cores641024
Core clock speedno data1065 MHz
Boost clock speed1400 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data23 Watt
Texture fill rateno data106.6
Floating-point processing powerno data3.41 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64

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 datamedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 GB/s
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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

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.

DirectXDirectX 12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 on May 2022
Chip lithography 10 nm 12 nm

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

T550 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) and T550 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) is a notebook graphics card while T550 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake)
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