Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Iris Xe MAX Graphics +53%

2.534 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

May 2013

HD Graphics-M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

768

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

24

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

39.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

79.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

5.069 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.534 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

Saturn

-

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Generation 12.1

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

10 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.08 billion

95 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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