Arctic Sound 2T vs Iris Xe Graphics G7

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking488not rated
Place by popularity19not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameTiger Lake XeArctic Sound
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date15 August 2020 (5 years ago)2021 (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 cores967680 ×2
Core clock speedno data900 MHz
Number of transistorsno data8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data500 Watt
Texture fill rateno data216.0 ×2
Floating-point processing powerno data13.82 TFLOPS ×2
ROPsno data120 ×2
TMUsno data240 ×2
L2 Cacheno data8 MB

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 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 typeDDR4HBM2e
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB ×2
Memory bus widthno data4096 Bit ×2
Memory clock speedno data1200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.23 TB/s ×2
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip 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 and SDK support

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

DirectXDirectX 12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


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Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics G7 is a notebook graphics card while Arctic Sound 2T is a workstation one.

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