Radeon Vega 7 vs Iris Plus Graphics 940

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated532
Place by popularitynot in top-10019
Power efficiencyno data11.39
ArchitectureGeneration 11.0 (2019−2021)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameIce Lake GT2Cezanne
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data13 April 2021 (3 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 cores384448
Core clock speed400 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistorsno data9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate24.0053.20
Floating-point processing power0.768 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2428

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 3.0 x1IGP
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memoryno data+

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 10 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 45 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics 940 has 200% lower power consumption.

Vega 7, on the other hand, has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Plus Graphics 940 and Radeon Vega 7. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Plus Graphics 940 is a desktop card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940
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AMD Radeon Vega 7
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