NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1650MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +4%

2.657 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2.534 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 900M

Generation

HD Graphics-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2133 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

68.26GB/s

Render Config

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.60 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.069 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.534 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

25W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

DG1

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.1

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

28 nm

Process Size

10 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

95 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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