Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile vs Quadro T500 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking476not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency35.07no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameTU117Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date2 December 2020 (3 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 cores896384
Core clock speed1365 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate94.9226.40
Floating-point processing power3.037 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs3212
TMUs5624

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
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 amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth80 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no 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 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 December 2020 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 12 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 15 Watt

T500 Mobile has an age advantage of 3 months.

Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile, on the other hand, has a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro T500 Mobile and Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro T500 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro T500 Mobile
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