RTX A2000 Mobile vs Iris Xe Graphics G4

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated211
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.55
ArchitectureGeneration 12.1 (2020−2021)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTiger Lake GT2GA106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date2 September 2020 (4 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores3842560
Core clock speed300 MHz893 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1358 MHz
Number of transistorsno data13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt95 Watt
Texture fill rate26.40108.6
Floating-point processing power0.8448 TFLOPS6.953 TFLOPS
ROPs1248
TMUs2480
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x1PCIe 4.0 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data176.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo 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.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 September 2020 12 April 2021
Chip lithography 10 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 95 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G4 has 533.3% lower power consumption.

RTX A2000 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics G4 and RTX A2000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics G4 is a notebook graphics card while RTX A2000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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