Intel Iris Xe vs Intel Iris Xe MAX

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs Intel Iris Xe MAX, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

31% slightly better overall score

742 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

20 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14184 points

17398 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14105 points

15155 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

14058 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

17892 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

Identical

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

1650 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

66% significantly lower TDP

25 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

39.6 Gigapixels/s

200% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

79.2 Gigatexels/s

200% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.45 TFLOPS

233% significantly better floating point performance

2.53 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

768

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

266th of 586

285th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

LPDDR4X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Iris Xe vs Iris Xe MAX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Iris Xe beats the Iris Xe MAX in gaming performance.

Our database shows that both the Iris Xe and Iris Xe MAX both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the Iris Xe MAX has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Iris Xe MAX at 25 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Iris Xe over the Iris Xe MAX.