Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking423not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency25.64no data
Architectureno dataGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameno dataAlder Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)4 January 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 cores153664
Boost clock speed1250 MHz1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology4 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Wattno data

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 typeLPDDR5xno data
Memory clock speed8448 MHzno data
Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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DirectX12_1DirectX 12_1

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 4 nm 10 nm

Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS has a 150% more advanced lithography process.

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Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS
SD X Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake)
Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake)

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