Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

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Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1650MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Iris Xe MAX Graphics +9%

2.534 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X

2.304 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2014

HD Graphics-M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

300 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

768

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

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

28.80 GPixel/s

79.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

5.069 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.534 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

633.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

Neptune

-

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Generation 12.1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

10 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

95 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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