Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs Radeon HD 8970M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1650MHz vs 900MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)
Radeon HD 8970M '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%
2534
Radeon HD 8970M
2304
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
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
-
Compute Units
20
768
Shading Units
1280
48
TMUs
80
24
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
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
Board Design
25W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
