Iris Xe Graphics 96EU vs Radeon R7 384 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking796not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameKaveri SpectreAlder Lake GT1
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 January 2014 (10 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 cores384768
Core clock speed720 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data45 Watt
Texture fill rateno data67.20
Floating-point processing powerno data2.15 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data48

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 dataRing Bus
Widthno dataIGP

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 dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 January 2014 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe Graphics 96EU has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

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AMD Radeon R7 384 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)
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