Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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
Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1650MHz vs 1515MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 95W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (896.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)
9728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
2.534 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile
+1154%
31.8 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Mar 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
990 MHz
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
1515 MHz
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
24GB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR7
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
896.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
82
768
Shading Units
10496
48
TMUs
328
24
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
328
-
RT Cores
82
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
64 MB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
169.7 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
496.9 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
31.80 TFLOPS
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
31.80 TFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
496.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
95W
-
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GB203
-
GPU Variant
GN22-X11-A1
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
5 nm
Unknown
Transistors
45.6 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
378 mm²
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
