Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking310not rated
Place by popularity27not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation36.68no data
Power efficiency13.56no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameGA107Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date27 January 2022 (2 years ago)2 September 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 speed1545 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1740 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors8,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)90 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate111.426.40
Floating-point processing power7.127 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs3212
TMUs6424
Tensor Cores64no 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 x8Ring Bus
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth192.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 January 2022 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 8 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 90 Watt 15 Watt

RTX 3050 4 GB has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 500% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB and Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB is a desktop card while Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile is a notebook one.


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