Iris Plus Graphics G5 (Ice Lake 48 EU) vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking656not rated
Place by popularity30not in top-100
Power efficiency20.74no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Intel Gen. 11 (Ice Lake)
GPU code nameVega Raven Ridgeno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date26 October 2017 (7 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores51248
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology14 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno 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 typeno dataDDR4
Shared memory-no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (FL 12_1)

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Iris Plus Graphics G5 (Ice Lake 48 EU). We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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Intel Iris Plus Graphics G5 (Ice Lake 48 EU)
Iris Plus Graphics G5 (Ice Lake 48 EU)

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