Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking621not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.64no data
Power efficiency2.34no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameCypressTiger Lake GT2
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date30 September 2009 (15 years ago)2 September 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 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 cores1440640
Core clock speed725 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate52.2044.00
Floating-point processing power2.088 TFLOPS1.408 TFLOPS
ROPs3220
TMUs7240

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 2.0 x16Ring Bus
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth128.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 2009 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 40 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU has an age advantage of 10 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 906.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5850 and Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5850 is a desktop card while Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU is a notebook one.


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