Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking481not rated
Place by popularity34not in top-100
Power efficiency41.34no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameVegaTiger Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)2 September 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 cores512768
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHz1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology7 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data52.80
Floating-point processing powerno data1.69 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data48

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).

Interfaceno dataRing Bus

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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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