Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 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
Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 53% (2520MHz vs 1650MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
2.534 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile
+409%
12.9 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Jan 2025
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 50 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
2235 MHz
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
20
768
Shading Units
2560
48
TMUs
80
24
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
80.64 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
201.6 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.90 TFLOPS
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.90 TFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
201.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
50W
-
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GB207
-
GPU Variant
GB207
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
5 nm
Unknown
Transistors
Unknown
95 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
12.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
