Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile vs Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameTU104BTiger Lake GT2
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date8 June 2020 (4 years ago)2 September 2020 (4 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 cores3072384
Core clock speed1035 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate296.626.40
Floating-point processing power9.492 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs6412
TMUs19224
Tensor Cores384no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no 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 3.0 x16Ring Bus

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/sno 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2020 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 12 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile has an age advantage of 2 months, a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 633.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh and Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation card while Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh
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