Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile vs Quadro FX 1700

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1235not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.78no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameG84Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date12 September 2007 (17 years ago)2 September 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores32384
Core clock speed460 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors289 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology80 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)42 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate7.36026.40
Floating-point processing power0.05888 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs812
TMUs1624

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16Ring Bus
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 September 2007 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 80 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 42 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile has an age advantage of 12 years, a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 180% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1700 and Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 1700 is a workstation card while Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile is a notebook one.


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