Iris Xe Graphics G7 and Radeon HD 8850M - video card comparison

Iris Xe Graphics G7

Radeon HD 8850M

Architecture

Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

Tiger Lake Xe

Venus

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

August 2020

December 2012

Interface

-

PCIe 3.0 x16

Boost clock speed

-

725 MHz

Core clock speed

-

575 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

800.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

10 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

-

1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

640

Texture fill rate

-

25.00

Memory type

DDR4

GDDR5, DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

-

2 GB

Memory bus width

-

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

4500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

32 GB/s

Shared memory

+

-

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

DirectX 12_1

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

-

1.2

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

5.1

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

Quick Sync

+

-