Arc Pro A40 vs Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU)

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking607not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameIce Lake G7 Gen. 11DG2-128
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date28 May 2019 (5 years ago)8 August 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores641024
Core clock speed300 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1700 MHz
Number of transistorsno data7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-25 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data108.8
Floating-point performanceno data3.482 gflops

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 x8
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeDDR4GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data96 Bit
Memory clock speedno data16 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 GB/s
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 data4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 May 2019 8 August 2022
Chip lithography 10 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 50 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) has 316.7% lower power consumption.

Arc Pro A40, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) and Arc Pro A40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) is a notebook card while Arc Pro A40 is a desktop one.


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Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU)
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