Iris Xe Max (DG1 LP / iDG1LP) Mobile vs Radeon HD 7790

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking516not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.12no data
Power efficiency6.57no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Gen. 12 Xe (2020)
GPU code nameBonaireiDG1LPDEV
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date22 March 2013 (11 years ago)1 March 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$149 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores89696
Core clock speed1000 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Wattno data
Texture fill rate56.00no data
Floating-point processing power1.792 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs56no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length183 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB3 GB
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth96 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)no data
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2013 1 March 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

Iris Xe Max (DG1 LP / iDG1LP) Mobile has an age advantage of 6 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7790 and Iris Xe Max (DG1 LP / iDG1LP) Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7790 is a desktop card while Iris Xe Max (DG1 LP / iDG1LP) Mobile is a notebook one.


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