Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs Radeon RX Vega M

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code name	Vega	Alder Lake Xe
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	1 February 2018 (6 years ago)	4 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Current price	$972	no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	64
Core clock speed	720 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1190 MHz	1400 MHz
Number of transistors	4,500 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	38.08	no data
Floating-point performance	1,219 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX Vega M and Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	IGP	no data
Width	IGP	no data

Memory

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 type	System Shared	no data
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	no data
Memory bus width	System Shared	no data
Memory clock speed	System Shared	no data
Shared memory	no data	+

Technologies

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

Quick Sync

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API support

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

DirectX	12.0	DirectX 12_1
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	1 February 2018	4 January 2022
Chip lithography	14 nm	10 nm

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