Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 3 (2005)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameGMA 950Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2005 (19 years ago)2 September 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 cores4640
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed250 MHz1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology130 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rateno data44.00
Floating-point processing powerno data1.408 TFLOPS
ROPsno data20
TMUsno data40

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).

Interfaceno dataRing 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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2005 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 130 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 has 114.3% lower power consumption.

Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, and a 1200% more advanced lithography process.

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU
Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU

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