Iris Xe Max (DG1 LP / iDG1LP) Mobile vs GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking181not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.81no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Gen. 12 Xe (2020)
GPU code nameTU106BiDG1LPDEV
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 January 2019 (5 years ago)1 March 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 cores230496
Core clock speed885 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1185 MHz1500 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattno data
Texture fill rate170.6no data
Floating-point processing power5.46 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs144no data
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth384.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data
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)no data
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 January 2019 1 March 2020
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 14 nm

RTX 2070 Max-Q has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Max (DG1 LP / iDG1LP) Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q and Iris Xe Max (DG1 LP / iDG1LP) Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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