Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs Quadro RTX 8000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking60not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.87no data
Power efficiency13.29no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameTU102Alder Lake Xe
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$9,999 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 cores460864
Core clock speed1395 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1400 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Wattno data
Texture fill rate509.8no data
Floating-point processing power16.31 TFLOPSno data
ROPs96no data
TMUs288no data
Tensor Cores576no data
Ray Tracing Cores72no 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 x16no data
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount48 GBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1750 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth672.0 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 DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-Cno 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.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)DirectX 12_1
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 12 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 20% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 8000 and Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 8000 is a workstation card while Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) is a notebook one.


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