Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs GeForce RTX 3070

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking38not rated
Place by popularity38not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation59.41no data
Power efficiency18.30no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameGA104Alder Lake Xe
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 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 cores588864
Core clock speed1500 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1725 MHz1400 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)220 Wattno data
Texture fill rate317.4no data
Floating-point processing power20.31 TFLOPSno data
ROPs96no data
TMUs184no data
Tensor Cores184no data
Ray Tracing Cores46no 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 x16no data
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1750 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth448.0 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, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

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

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)DirectX 12_1
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2-
CUDA8.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2020 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 8 nm 10 nm

RTX 3070 has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake), on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 and Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3070 is a desktop card while Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) is a notebook one.


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