Iris Xe Graphics 80EU Mobile vs GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking210not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameN18E-G1 MAX-Q TU106Raptor Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores1920640
Core clock speed975 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1185 MHz1450 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate142.258.00
Floating-point processing power4.55 gflopsno data
ROPs4820
TMUs12040

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16Ring Bus
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount6 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed11000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

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

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2019 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 12 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics 80EU Mobile has an age advantage of 3 years, a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 333.3% lower power consumption.

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