Iris Xe Graphics 80EU vs GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking168not rated
Place by popularity70not in top-100
Power efficiency27.89no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGA106Raptor Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 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 cores3840640
Core clock speed900 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1425 MHz1450 MHz
Number of transistors13,250 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate171.058.00
Floating-point processing power10.94 TFLOPS1.856 TFLOPS
ROPs4820
TMUs12040
Tensor Cores120no data
Ray Tracing Cores30no 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 4.0 x16Ring Bus

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 speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth336.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 15 Watt

RTX 3060 Mobile has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics 80EU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 433.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and Iris Xe Graphics 80EU. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
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