Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M 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 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (68.26GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
752 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 305M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (14W vs 25W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+6748%
2.534 TFLOPS
GeForce 305M
0.037 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Jan 2010
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 300M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
-
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
11.20GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
768
Shading Units
16
48
TMUs
8
24
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.100 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.200 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.80 GFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
14W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GT218
-
GPU Variant
N11M-LP1
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
40 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.26 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
