Arctic Sound-M vs Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking527not rated
Place by popularity48not in top-100
Power efficiency18.84no data
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameTiger Lake XeArctic Sound
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date15 August 2020 (4 years ago)2022 (2 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 cores808192
Core clock speed400 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rateno data230.4
Floating-point processing powerno data14.75 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data256

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 data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

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 dataHBM2e
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data4096 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.23 TB/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 dataNo outputs

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.

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 500 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs has 1685.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs and Arctic Sound-M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs is a notebook card while Arctic Sound-M is a workstation one.


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