Iris Xe Graphics 96EU vs Radeon R7 A265

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking815not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameOpalAlder Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date9 January 2014 (10 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 cores384768
Core clock speed725 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHz1400 MHz
Number of transistors950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data45 Watt
Texture fill rate19.8067.20
Floating-point processing power0.6336 TFLOPS2.15 TFLOPS
ROPs824
TMUs2448

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

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 amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/sno 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 9 January 2014 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe Graphics 96EU has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 A265 and Iris Xe Graphics 96EU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 A265 is a notebook card while Iris Xe Graphics 96EU is a desktop one.


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