Iris Plus Graphics G7 vs Radeon HD 7650M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1069not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.08no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameThamesIce Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2012 (12 years ago)4 May 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 cores480512
Core clock speed450 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed550 MHz1050 MHz
Number of transistors716 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate10.8033.60
Floating-point processing power0.432 TFLOPS1.075 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs2432

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x1
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 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.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.1.97

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2012 4 May 2020
Chip lithography 40 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics G7 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7650M and Iris Plus Graphics G7. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7650M is a notebook card while Iris Plus Graphics G7 is a desktop one.


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