Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M 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 9 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (68.26GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
720 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (12W vs 25W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+1684%
2.534 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 520M
0.142 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Jan 2011
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 500M
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
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
1
768
Shading Units
48
48
TMUs
8
24
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.480 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.920 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
142.1 GFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.84 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
12W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GF119
-
GPU Variant
N12P-GV-B-A1
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
40 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.292 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
