Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking981not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.27no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeAlder Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 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 cores19264
Boost clock speed800 MHz1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Wattno data

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizemedium sizedno 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 bus width64 Bitno data
Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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DirectX12 (FL 12_0)DirectX 12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

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