Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
807.3x more texture fill rate: 88.00 GTexel/s vs 109 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 28 nm
9.9x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 148 Watt

Launch date	2 Sep 2020 vs 19 September 2014
Texture fill rate	88.00 GTexel/s vs 109 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 148 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

3.5x more core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 1100 MHz
2.6x more pipelines: 1664 vs 640
2.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3626 vs 1243

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines	1664 vs 640
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3626 vs 1243

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1243

3626

Name	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1243	3626
PassMark - G3D Mark		9636
PassMark - G2D Mark		768
Geekbench - OpenCL		28478
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		105.107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1225.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		8.76
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.714
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		489.884
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3340

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Tiger Lake GT2	GM204
Launch date	2 Sep 2020	19 September 2014
Place in performance rating	1427	362
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$329
Price now		$407.76
Value for money (0-100)		28.59
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1178 MHz
Compute units	80
Core clock speed	300 MHz	1050 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	352.0 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.816 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1408 GFLOPS
Pipelines	640	1664
Pixel fill rate	22.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	88.00 GTexel/s	109 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	148 Watt
CUDA cores		1664
Floating-point performance		3,920 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		98 °C
Transistor count		5,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	IGP
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
SLI options		4x
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pins
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		224 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		7.0 GB/s
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround