Steam Deck OLED GPU vs Iris Xe Graphics G7

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking421not rated
Place by popularity35not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTiger Lake XeSephiroth
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 August 2020 (4 years ago)9 November 2023 (less than a year 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 cores96512
Core clock speedno data1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,400 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data51.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.638 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32
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).

Lengthno data298 mm

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 typeDDR4LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data88 GB/s
Shared memory+no 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 data1x USB Type-C

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 data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2020 9 November 2023
Chip lithography 10 nm 6 nm

Steam Deck OLED GPU has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics G7 and Steam Deck OLED GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics G7 is a notebook card while Steam Deck OLED GPU is a desktop one.


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