Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU vs Quadro NVS 120M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1438not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.84no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameG72Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date1 June 2006 (18 years ago)2 September 2020 (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 cores7640
Core clock speed450 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed450 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors112 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology90 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate1.80044.00
Floating-point processing powerno data1.408 TFLOPS
ROPs220
TMUs440

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).

InterfaceMXM-IIIRing Bus

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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed700 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/sno data
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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_1)
Shader Model3.06.6
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2006 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 90 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 15 Watt

NVS 120M has 50% lower power consumption.

Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, and a 800% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 120M and Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 120M is a mobile workstation card while Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M
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