Iris Xe Graphics 80EU vs Radeon 520

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking876not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.82no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameBanksAlder Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 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 cores320640
Core clock speed1030 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1300 MHz
Number of transistors690 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate20.6052.00
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS1.664 TFLOPS
ROPs820
TMUs2040

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 x8Ring Bus
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1125 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth36 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 45 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics 80EU has an age advantage of 4 years, a 180% more advanced lithography process, and 11.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 and Iris Xe Graphics 80EU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 520 is a notebook card while Iris Xe Graphics 80EU is a desktop one.


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