Iris Xe Graphics G4 vs Quadro RTX 8000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking62not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.92no data
Power efficiency4.37no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameTU102Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)2 September 2020 (4 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 cores4608384
Core clock speed1395 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate509.826.40
Floating-point processing power16.31 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs9612
TMUs28824
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 x16PCIe 3.0 x1
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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount48 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
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 outputs

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)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 12 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G4 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 1633.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 8000 and Iris Xe Graphics G4. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 8000 is a workstation card while Iris Xe Graphics G4 is a notebook one.


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