Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs vs Switch GPU

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated528
Place by popularitynot in top-10065
Power efficiencyno data18.55
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameGM20BTiger Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date17 March 2017 (7 years ago)15 August 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 cores25680
Core clock speed384 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed768 MHz1350 MHz
Number of transistors2,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology20 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt28 Watt
Texture fill rate12.29no data
Floating-point processing power0.3932 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs16no 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).

InterfaceIGPno 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 typeDDR4no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1600 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 outputsno data

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_1
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA5.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2017 15 August 2020
Chip lithography 20 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 28 Watt

Switch GPU has 86.7% lower power consumption.

Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Switch GPU and Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs. We've got no test results to judge.


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