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Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs

Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs

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The Intel UHD Graphics Xe Graphics G4 (Tiger-Lake U GPU with 48 EUs) is a integrated graphics card in the low end Tiger-Lake U CPUs (15 Watt, e.g. Core i3 11th Gen). It is using the new Xe architecture (Gen12) and should be announced later in 2020.

The performance depends on the TDP settings of the laptop and the used cooling. First informations show that the chip can be configured at 15 and 28 Watt TDP default (as the Ice Lake-U chips) and the performance should be around a dedicated GeForce MX230 in 3DMark benchmarks. For gaming we are expecting a bit worse performance due to the missing dedicated graphics memory and driver support. Compared to the fastest Ice Lake iGPU (Iris Plus G7), the 48 EU version in an i3 should be slightly faster. Therefore, the iGPU is still only for lowest graphical settings and low resolutions in demanding games.

The Tiger Lake SoCs and therefore the integrated GPU are manufactured in the modern 10nm+ process (improved 10nm process) at Intel and therefore should offer a very good efficiency.

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

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The Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU, not to be confused with the A2000, P2000 or T2000, is a mid-range professional graphics card for use in laptops that sports 3,072 CUDA cores and 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM. It would be fair to say that this is a GeForce RTX 4060 (Laptop) in disguise; consequently, the former is powered by the same AD107 chip as the latter, and is fast enough to handle any triple-A game at 1080p with Ultra quality settings. Brought into existence in 2023, the RTX 2000 leverages TSMC's 5 nm process and Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture to achieve very decent performance combined with moderate power consumption. The Nvidia-recommended TGP range for the card is very wide at 35 W to 140 W leading to bizarre performance differences between different systems powered by what is supposed to be the same product.

Quadro series graphics cards ship with much different BIOS and drivers than GeForce cards and are targeted at professional users rather than gamers. Commercial product design, large-scale calculations, simulation, data mining, 24 x 7 operation, certified drivers - if any of this sounds familiar, then a Quadro card will make you happy.

Architecture and Features

Ada Lovelace brings a range of improvements over older graphics cards utilizing the outgoing Ampere architecture. It's not just a better manufacturing process and a higher number of CUDA cores that we have here (up to 16,384 versus 10,752); under-the-hood refinements are plentiful, including an immensely larger L2 cache, an optimized ray tracing routine (a different way is employed to determine what is transparent and what isn't), and other changes. Naturally, these graphics cards can both encode and decode some of the most widely used video codecs, AVC, HEVC and AV1 included; they also support a host of Nvidia technologies, including Optimus and DLSS 3, and they can certainly be used for various AI applications.

The RTX 2000 features 24 RT cores of the 3rd generation, 96 Tensor cores of the 4th generation and 3,072 CUDA cores. Increase those numbers by 50%, and you get an RTX 3000 Ada Generation - as long as we disregard clock speed differences, of course. Unlike costlier Ada Generation professional laptop graphics cards, the RTX 2000 comes with 8 GB of non-ECC VRAM; the lack of error correction makes this card less suitable for super-important tasks and round-the-clock operation. Much like it is with the RTX 3000 Ada Generation, the VRAM is 128-bit wide and delivers a decent bandwidth of ~256 GB/s.

The RTX 2000 Ada Generation makes use of the PCI-Express 4 protocol, just like Ampere-based cards. 8K SUHD monitors are supported, however, DP 1.4a video outputs can potentially prove to be a bottleneck down the line.

Performance

The average RTX 2000 Ada in our extensive database is much closer to the RTX 4050 Laptop than it is to the RTX 4060 Laptop.

Nvidia's marketing materials mention "up to 14.5 TFLOPS" of performance, a significant downgrade compared to 20 TFLOPS delivered by the RTX 3000 Ada Generation.

Your mileage may vary depending on how competent the cooling solution of your laptop is and how high the TGP power target of the RTX 2000 Ada is.

Power consumption

Nvidia no longer divides its laptop graphics cards into Max-Q and non-max-Q models. Instead, laptop makers are free to set the TGP according to their needs, and the range can sometimes be shockingly wide. This is especially the case for the RTX 2000, as the lowest value recommended for it sits at just 35 W while the highest is 300% higher at 140 W. The slowest system built around an RTX 2000 Ada can easily be half as fast as the fastest one. This is the kind of delta that we've already seen on consumer-grade laptops featuring the latest GeForce RTX cards.

Last but not the least, the improved 5 nm process (TSMC 4N) the RTX 2000 is built with makes for very decent energy efficiency, as of mid 2023.

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs

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The Intel Xe Graphics G7 (Tiger-Lake U GPU with 96 EUs) is a integrated graphics card in the high end Tiger-Lake U CPUs (15 - 28 Watt). It is using the new Xe architecture (Gen12) and was introduced in September 2020. The GPU clocks with a base clock speed (guaranteed) of 400 MHz in all CPUs and can boost up to 1340 MHz (i7-1185G7). The slowest variant offers only 1100 MHz boost (i5-1130G7, 12 Watt TDP).

The performance depends on the TDP settings of the laptop and the used cooling. First informations show that the chip can be configured at 12 and 28 Watt TDP default (as the Ice Lake-U chips) and the performance should be around a dedicated GeForce MX350 in 3DMark benchmarks. For gaming we are expecting a bit worse performance due to the missing dedicated graphics memory and driver support. Many games e.g. had problems when testing the various laptops (e.g. Horizon Zero Dawn or Cyberpunk 2077 did not start or were crashing - see list below). Less demanding games like the Mass Effect Legendary Edition ran in medium settings fine. Compared to the older Ice Lake Iris Plus G7 GPU, the new Tiger Lake GPU should be approximately twice as fast. Therefore, the iGPU is still only for lowest graphical settings and low resolutions in demanding games.

The Tiger Lake SoCs and therefore the integrated GPU are manufactured in the modern 10nm+ (10nm SuperFin) process (improved 10nm process) at Intel and therefore should offer a very good efficiency.

Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUsNVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPUIntel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs
Gen. 12 / Xe Series
Iris Xe G7 96EUs 96 @ 0.4 - 1.35 GHz
Iris Xe G7 80EUs 80 @ 0.4 - 1.35 GHz
UHD Graphics 64EUs 64 @ 1.4 GHz
UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs 48 @ 0.35 - 1.45 GHz
UHD Graphics 32EUs 32 @ 1.25 GHz
UHD Graphics Xe 32EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 32 @ 0.35 - 1.45 GHz
UHD Graphics Xe 750 32EUs 32 @ 0.35 - 1.45 GHz
UHD Graphics 24EUs (Alder Lake-N) 24 @ 0.45 - 0.75 GHz
UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 16 @ 0.35 - 1.45 GHz
NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 9728 @ 0.93 - 1.68 GHz256 Bit @ 20000 MHz
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 7424 192 Bit @ 16000 MHz
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 5120 192 Bit @ 16000 MHz
NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 4608 128 Bit @ 16000 MHz
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 3072 128 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 2560 96 Bit @ 16000 MHz
Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 2048 64 Bit @ 12000 MHz
Iris Xe G7 96EUs 96 @ 0.4 - 1.35 GHz
Iris Xe G7 80EUs 80 @ 0.4 - 1.35 GHz
UHD Graphics 64EUs 64 @ 1.4 GHz
UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs 48 @ 0.35 - 1.45 GHz
UHD Graphics 32EUs 32 @ 1.25 GHz
UHD Graphics Xe 32EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 32 @ 0.35 - 1.45 GHz
UHD Graphics Xe 750 32EUs 32 @ 0.35 - 1.45 GHz
UHD Graphics 24EUs (Alder Lake-N) 24 @ 0.45 - 0.75 GHz
UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) 16 @ 0.35 - 1.45 GHz
CodenameTiger Lake XeTiger Lake Xe
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice LakeAda LovelaceGen. 11 Ice Lake
Pipelines48 - unified3072 - unified96 - unified
Core Speed350 - 1450 (Boost) MHz400 - 1350 (Boost) MHz
Shared Memoryyesnoyes
APIDirectX 12_1, OpenGL 4.6DirectX 12 Ultimate, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3DirectX 12_1, OpenGL 4.6
Power Consumption28 Watt115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)28 Watt
technology10 nm5 nm10 nm
FeaturesQuickSyncQuickSync
Date of Announcement15.08.2020 21.03.2023 15.08.2020
TMUs96
ROPs32
Raytracing Cores24
Tensor / AI Cores96
CacheL2: 32 MB
Memory Speed16000 effective = 2000 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR6
Max. Amount of Memory8 GB
Memory Bandwidth256 GB/s
PCIe4
Displays4 Displays (max.), HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a
Notebook Sizelarge
Link to Manufacturer Pageimages.nvidia.com
PredecessorRTX A2000 Laptop GPU
CPU in UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUsGPU Base SpeedGPU Boost / Turbo
Intel Core i5-13420H8 x 1500 MHz, 45 W? MHz1400 MHz
Intel Core i5-12450H8 x 1500 MHz, 45 W? MHz1200 MHz
Intel Core i3-1125G44 x 2000 MHz, 28 W400 MHz1250 MHz
min. - max.400 MHz? - 1400 MHz
CPU in Iris Xe G7 96EUsGPU Base SpeedGPU Boost / Turbo
Intel Core i9-13900HK14 x 1900 MHz, 45 W? MHz1500 MHz
Intel Core i9-13905H14 x 1900 MHz, 45 W? MHz1500 MHz
Intel Core i9-13900H14 x 1900 MHz, 45 W? MHz1500 MHz
min. - max.400 MHz950 - 1550 MHz

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy - UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs
1.1 pt (3%)
Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy - Iris Xe G7 96EUs
2.3 pt (7%)
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score
min: 715     avg: 855     median: 888 (3%)     max: 1018 Points
min: 7813     avg: 8763     median: 8849 (26%)     max: 9628 Points
min: 789     avg: 1676     median: 1736 (5%)     max: 2133 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
min: 634     avg: 763     median: 798 (2%)     max: 913 Points
min: 7410     avg: 8334     median: 8433 (22%)     max: 9158 Points
min: 707     avg: 1495     median: 1559.5 (4%)     max: 1871 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics
min: 73098     avg: 97350     median: 97415.5 (11%)     max: 121471 Points
min: 159203     avg: 229702     median: 208639 (24%)     max: 375145 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Graphics
min: 41710     avg: 47311     median: 45259 (6%)     max: 54963 Points
min: 35612     avg: 78972     median: 75768 (10%)     max: 168062 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
min: 4925     avg: 9868     median: 9422 (10%)     max: 17770 Points
58198 Points (62%)
min: 9231     avg: 19160     median: 19060 (20%)     max: 30468 Points