RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake)

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated17
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data6.82
Power efficiencyno data16.74
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAlder Lake XeAD102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)3 December 2022 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$6,799

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 cores6418176
Core clock speedno data915 MHz
Boost clock speed1400 MHz2505 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,423
Floating-point processing powerno data91.06 TFLOPS
ROPsno data192
TMUsno data568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data48 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data960.0 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 DisplayPort 1.4a

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

DirectXDirectX 12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 3 December 2022
Chip lithography 10 nm 5 nm

RTX 6000 Ada Generation has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) and RTX 6000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) is a notebook card while RTX 6000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake)
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