Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 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 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1650MHz vs 1531MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (68.26GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 25W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Iris Xe MAX Graphics +223%

2.534 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Feb 2019

HD Graphics-M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

768

Shading Units

256

48

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

39.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

79.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

5.069 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

2.534 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

GP108

-

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Generation 12.1

Architecture

Pascal

Intel

Foundry

Samsung

10 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.8 billion

95 mm²

Die Size

74 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

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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