The race for manufacturers to display their latest generation graphics cards is on. After AMD's announcement of the release of Radeon RX 6000 series cards from November 18 this year and the opening of pre-orders for GeForce 30 series cards for Nvidia, it is now Intel's turn launches its Iris Xe Max graphics cards.
Features of Intel Iris Xe Max cards
These cards are being released today in China and will arrive in the USA in the coming weeks. These graphics cards are launched with ultra-light laptops that house them. We can cite the Acer Swift 3x equipped with a Tiger Lake processor, the Asus VivoBook Flip TP470 and the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 . The Iris Xe Max card marks Intel's return to the graphics card market after a long absence.
The Iris Xe Max card has 96 execution units . The nominal working frequency is 1.65 GHz. The GPU is built on a hyper-fine 10nm engraving process. 4 GB LPDDR4x memory with a transfer speed of 68 GB/s . It supports VRS (Variable rate shading), adaptive sync and Async compute. This card supports DirectX 12 technology.
Effectiveness of the Iris Xe Max
The Geekbench 5 team has already tested this card and given it a score based on its performance. The Iris Xe Max obtained a score of 11,885. It is less efficient than the GeForce MX350 with its 640 shading units and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. The latter obtained a score of 13,832. As for the AMD Radeon RX 550X graphics card, it has a score of 12,598. The Nvidia MX330 card, on the other hand, is less powerful than the Iris Xe Max because its score is only 11,162.
Intel, on the other hand, combines its Iris Xe Max graphics card with the Tiger Lake processor via the Deep Link . This allows power synergy between the GPU and the iGPU. In this way, the execution units are reduced to 192 and the shading units to 1536. If the card alone allows the Iris Xe Max to position itself above Nvidia's GeForce MX330, this card duo- processor allows you to double the performance of the graphics card.
The 3 IT giants threw their dice on the table this week by announcing their latest generation cards. AMD will release the Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT cards on November 18, 2020, then it will put the Radeon RX 6900 Nvidia, for its part, is opening pre-orders for its GeForce 3000 series cards. Intel, for its part, is launching its Iris Xe Max card from China with its laptops equipped with Tiger Lake processors . The 3 manufacturers have done everything they can to offer high-performance graphics cards. The customer would be spoiled for choice.
