Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs GeForce GTX 960M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1650MHz vs 1176MHz)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)
GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+68%
2534
GeForce GTX 960M
1505
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Mar 2015
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
1097 MHz
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
1176 MHz
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
768
Shading Units
640
48
TMUs
40
24
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.505 TFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GM107
-
GPU Variant
N16P-GX-A1
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Maxwell
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
1.87 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
