Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile vs Radeon RX 480

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking250not rated
Place by popularity94not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation15.81no data
Power efficiency10.21no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameEllesmereTiger Lake GT2
GCN generation4th Genno data
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date29 June 2016 (8 years ago)2 September 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 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 cores2304384
Compute units36no data
Core clock speed1120 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1266 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate182.326.40
Floating-point processing power5.834 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs3212
TMUs14424

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).

Bus supportn/ano data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16Ring Bus
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed8000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
Eyefinity+-
HDMI2.0-
DisplayPort support1.4HDR-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAccelerationn/a-
CrossFire+-
Enduron/a-
FRTC+-
FreeSync+-
HD3Dn/a-
LiquidVR+-
PowerTune+-
TressFX+-
TrueAudion/a-
ZeroCore+-
UVD+-
VCE+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan+1.3
Mantlen/a-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 June 2016 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile has an age advantage of 4 years, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 480 and Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 480 is a desktop card while Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile is a notebook one.


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