Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
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)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
2.534 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970M
+4%
2.657 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Oct 2014
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
924 MHz
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
1280
48
TMUs
80
24
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
5.2 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
398 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
-
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
