Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs Qualcomm Adreno 690

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking806not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency26.64no data
Architectureno dataGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameno dataAlder Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 December 2018 (6 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 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 coresno data64
Boost clock speedno data1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Wattno 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.

Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12DirectX 12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 December 2018 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 5 nm 10 nm

Qualcomm Adreno 690 has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake), on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years.

We couldn't decide between Qualcomm Adreno 690 and Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake). We've got no test results to judge.


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