Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile vs Radeon RX 560

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking467not rated
Place by popularity90not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.48no data
Power efficiency8.65no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code namePolaris 21Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)2 September 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$99 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 cores1024384
Core clock speed1175 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1275 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate81.6026.40
Floating-point processing power2.611 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs1612
TMUs6424

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 x8Ring Bus
Length170 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth112.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile has an age advantage of 3 years, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 560 and Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 560 is a desktop card while Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile is a notebook one.


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