Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs GeForce FX Go5250

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameNV34 A1Alder Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2003 (21 year 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 coresno data64
Core clock speed250 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1400 MHz
Number of transistors45 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology150 nm10 nm
Texture fill rate1.000no data
ROPs4no data
TMUs4no 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).

InterfaceAGP 8xno 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 typeDDRno data
Maximum RAM amount64 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth8 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 data

Supported technologies

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

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0aDirectX 12_1
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)no data
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2003 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 150 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) has an age advantage of 18 years, and a 1400% more advanced lithography process.

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