Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs GeForce GTX 870M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1650MHz vs 967MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)
GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
2534
GeForce GTX 870M
+2%
2599
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Mar 2014
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 800M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
941 MHz
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
967 MHz
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
120.0GB/s
Render Config
768
Shading Units
1344
48
TMUs
112
24
ROPs
24
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.08 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.3 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.599 TFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
108.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
N15E-GT-A2
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Kepler
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
3.54 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
