Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 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 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1650MHz vs 1140MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2.534 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +84%

4.669 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Sep 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

1064 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

79.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

5.069 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.534 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

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

Board Design

25W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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)

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