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

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	309	not rated
Place by popularity	25	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	36.95	no data
Power efficiency	13.42	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code name	GA107	Tiger Lake GT2
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	27 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.

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 cores	2048	384
Core clock speed	1545 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1740 MHz	1100 MHz
Number of transistors	8,700 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	90 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	111.4	26.40
Floating-point processing power	7.127 TFLOPS	0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	12
TMUs	64	24
Tensor Cores	64	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	16	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	Ring Bus
Length	242 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no 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 type	GDDR6	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	no 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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.7	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
CUDA	8.6	-

Pros & cons summary

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

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