Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) vs Quadro NVS 450

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated608
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data14.98
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameG98Ice Lake G7 Gen. 11
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date11 November 2008 (16 years ago)28 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$163.14 no data

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 cores864
Core clock speed480 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors210 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt12-25 Watt
Texture fill rate3.840no data
Floating-point processing power0.0192 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

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 x16no 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 typeGDDR3DDR4
Maximum RAM amount256 MBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed700 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/sno data
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 Connectors4x DisplayPortno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12_1
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2008 28 May 2019
Chip lithography 65 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 12 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) has an age advantage of 10 years, a 550% more advanced lithography process, and 191.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 450 and Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 450 is a workstation card while Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
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