Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

VS

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M 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 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Iris Xe MAX Graphics +127%

2.534 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2011

HD Graphics-M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

768

Shading Units

960

48

TMUs

48

24

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

39.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

79.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

5.069 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.534 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

25W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

Blackcomb

-

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

Generation 12.1

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

10 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

95 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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