GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking460not rated
Place by popularity8353
Power efficiency24.35no data
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTiger Lake XeGA104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 August 2020 (4 years ago)1 September 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$329

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 cores963584
Core clock speed400 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rateno data199.0
Floating-point processing powerno data12.74 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data112
Tensor Coresno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-pin

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 data12 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1875 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data360.0 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 data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

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_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2020 1 September 2021
Chip lithography 10 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 170 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs has 507.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060 12 GB GA104, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 is a desktop one.


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