T550 Mobile vs Iris Xe Graphics 96EU

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated391
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data39.31
ArchitectureGeneration 12.2 (2022−2023)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameAlder Lake GT1TU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile 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 cores7681024
Core clock speed300 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speed1400 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate67.20106.6
Floating-point processing power2.15 TFLOPS3.41 TFLOPS
ROPs2432
TMUs4864

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
InterfaceRing BusPCIe 3.0 x16
WidthIGPno data

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 Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 10 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 23 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics 96EU has a 20% more advanced lithography process.

T550 Mobile, on the other hand, has 95.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics 96EU and T550 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics 96EU is a desktop card while T550 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96EU
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