AMD Radeon E8950 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

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AMD Radeon E8950 Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1650MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +61%

4.096 TFLOPS

Iris Xe MAX Graphics

2.534 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

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Iris Xe MAX Graphics

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Oct 2020

Embedded

Generation

HD Graphics-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

300 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2133 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

68.26GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.60 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.20 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.069 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.534 TFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

DG1

E8950

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Generation 12.1

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

28 nm

Process Size

10 nm

5 billion

Transistors

Unknown

366 mm²

Die Size

95 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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