The manufacturers' race to display their latest generation graphics cards is launched. After AMD's announcement on the release of the Radeon RX 6000 series cards from this year November 18 and the opening of the pre -order for the GeForce Series 30 cards for NVIDIA, it is now Intel's turn that launches its IRIS Max graphics cards.
Characteristic of Intel Xe Max Iris Cards
These cards are going out today in China to arrive in the USA in the coming weeks. These graphics cards are launched with ultra light laptops that host 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 Xe Max IRIS card marks Intel's return to the graphics cards market after long moments of absence.
The Iris Max IRIS card has 96 execution units . The nominal work frequency is 1.65 GHz. The GPU is built on an engraving process at 10 Nm hyper fine. The Intel graphics card has an LPDDR4X 4 GB 68 GB/s transfer speed . It supports the VRS (Variable Rate Shading), the Sync adaptive and the Async Compute. This card supports DirectX 12 technology.
Iris Max Iris efficiency
The Geekbench 5 team has already tested this card and has given it a score compared to its performance. The Iris Xe Max obtained a score of 11,885. It is less efficient than the GeForce MX350 with its 640 units of Shading 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 is however less power than the XX max Iris because its score is only 11 162.
Intel, on the other hand, combines its Iris Max IRIS graphics card with the Tiger Lake processor via the Deep Link . This allows a synergy of power 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 Xe Max IRIS to position itself above the NVIDIA GeForce MX330, this duo-processor duo makes it possible to double the performance of the graphics card.
The 3 computer giants threw their dice on the table this week by announcing their latest generation cards. AMD will be released on the market on November 18, 2020 the Radeon RX 6800 cards and Radeon RX 6800 XT then it will sell the Radeon RX 6900 XT on December 8. NVIDIA opens pre -orders for its 3000 series GeForce Series. Intel, for its part, launched from China its XE Max IRIS card with its laptops with Tiger Lake processors . The 3 manufacturers have done everything to offer very efficient graphics cards. The customer would only be spoiled for choice.
