Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile vs Radeon RX 6500M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking271not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.09no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameNavi 24Tiger Lake GT2
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 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 cores1024384
Core clock speed2000 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed2400 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors5,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology6 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate153.626.40
Floating-point processing power4.915 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs3212
TMUs6424
Ray Tracing Cores16no 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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4Ring Bus
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 width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth144.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 2 September 2020
Chip lithography 6 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

RX 6500M has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6500M and Iris Xe Graphics G4 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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