Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs GeForce GT 420M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (68.26GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
672 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 25W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+1219%
2534
GeForce GT 420M
192
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Sep 2010
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 400M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
-
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
2
768
Shading Units
96
48
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
16.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
23W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GF108
-
GPU Variant
N11P-GE-A1
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Fermi
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
40 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.585 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
