Arc Pro A30M vs Iris Xe Graphics 96EU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated350
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.85
ArchitectureGeneration 12.2 (2022−2023)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameRaptor Lake GT1DG2-128
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date4 January 2023 (1 year ago)8 August 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 cores7681024
Core clock speed300 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate72.00128.0
Floating-point processing power2.304 TFLOPS4.096 TFLOPS
ROPs2432
TMUs4864
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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 4.0 x8
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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2023 8 August 2022
Chip lithography 10 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 50 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics 96EU has an age advantage of 4 months, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

Arc Pro A30M, on the other hand, has a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics 96EU and Arc Pro A30M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics 96EU is a notebook graphics card while Arc Pro A30M is a mobile workstation one.


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Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU
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