Iris Xe Graphics G4 vs Radeon RX 5500M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking364not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency11.63no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameNavi 14Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 October 2019 (5 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 cores1408384
Core clock speed1375 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate144.826.40
Floating-point processing power4.632 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs3212
TMUs8824

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x1
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224.0 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 outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2019 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 85 Watt 15 Watt

RX 5500M has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics G4, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months, and 466.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500M and Iris Xe Graphics G4. We've got no test results to judge.


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