Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile vs Arc A550M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking225not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.00no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameDG2-512Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date2022 (2 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 cores2048384
Core clock speed900 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed2050 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors21,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology6 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate262.426.40
Floating-point processing power8.397 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs6412
TMUs12824
Tensor Cores256no data
Ray Tracing Cores16no data

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 4.0 x16Ring 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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 6 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 15 Watt

Arc A550M has a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 300% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arc A550M and Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Arc A550M
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