Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs AMD Radeon E8950

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Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 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 65% (1650MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2.534 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +61%

4.096 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Sep 2015

HD Graphics-M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

79.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

5.069 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

2.534 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

Amethyst

-

GPU Variant

E8950

Generation 12.1

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

10 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5 billion

95 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

95W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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