Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M 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 11 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (68.26GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
672 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 38W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+859%
2.534 TFLOPS
GeForce GTS 260M
0.264 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Jun 2009
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 200M
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
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
12
768
Shading Units
96
48
TMUs
32
24
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
38W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GT215
-
GPU Variant
N10E-GS
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
40 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.727 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
144 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
