Iris Xe Graphics G4 vs ATI Radeon 9700 PRO X4

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameR300Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 July 2002 (22 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 coresno data384
Core clock speed325 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors110 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology150 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate2.60026.40
Floating-point processing powerno data0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs812
TMUs824

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x1
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x Molexno 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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed310 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth19.84 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors4x DVINo 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.

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2002 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 150 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe Graphics G4 has an age advantage of 18 years, and a 1400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9700 PRO X4 and Iris Xe Graphics G4. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9700 PRO X4 is a desktop card while Iris Xe Graphics G4 is a notebook one.


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