Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 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 2 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1650MHz vs 1301MHz)
Lower TDP (25W vs 120W)
AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
2.534 TFLOPS
Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
+268%
9.326 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Jun 2018
HD Graphics-M
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
1138 MHz
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
1301 MHz
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
HBM2
128bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
56
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
3584
48
TMUs
224
24
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
83.26 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
291.4 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
18.65 TFLOPS
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.326 TFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
582.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
120W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
Vega 10
-
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
Generation 12.1
Architecture
GCN 5.0
Intel
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
10 nm
Process Size
14 nm
Unknown
Transistors
12.5 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
