Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs Iris Plus Graphics G5 (Ice Lake 48 EU)

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated621
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data14.25
ArchitectureIntel Gen. 11 (Ice Lake)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameno dataDG1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)31 October 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 cores48768
Core clock speed300 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1650 MHz
Manufacturing process technologyno data10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data25 Watt
Texture fill rateno data79.20
Floating-point processing powerno data2.534 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data48

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 dataPCIe 4.0 x4

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 typeDDR4LPDDR4X
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2133 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data68.26 GB/s
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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


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Intel Iris Plus Graphics G5 (Ice Lake 48 EU)
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