GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q 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 ranking528not rated
Place by popularity65not in top-100
Power efficiency18.56no data
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTiger Lake XeGA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 August 2020 (4 years ago)11 May 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 cores802048
Core clock speed400 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHz1057 MHz
Manufacturing process technology10 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data67.65
Floating-point processing powerno data4.329 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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
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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data176.0 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 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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2020 11 May 2021
Chip lithography 10 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 35 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs has 25% lower power consumption.

RTX 3050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 months, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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