AMD Radeon R7 260X vs Intel Iris Xe MAX

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB 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

779 points

4% slightly better overall score

742 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

20 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

8 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

266% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1650 MHz

64% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s

52% significantly higher memory bandwidth

68.26 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

25 W

360% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

39.6 Gigapixels/s

125% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

79.2 Gigatexels/s

28% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.97 TFLOPS

2.53 TFLOPS

28% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

16% slightly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

16% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 586

286th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

LPDDR4X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 260X vs Iris Xe MAX comparison

For gaming, the Radeon R7 260X graphics card is better than the Iris Xe MAX in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon R7 260X has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the Iris Xe MAX has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Iris Xe MAX has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R7 260X is better than the Iris Xe MAX.