AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

584 points

742 points

27% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

20 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

Identical

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

8 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

17398 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

15155 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

14058 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

17892 points

56% significantly 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

2000 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

1650 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

25 W

79% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

39.6 Gigapixels/s

147% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

79.2 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

2.53 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

768

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

318th of 599

293rd of 599

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

LPDDR4X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs Iris Xe MAX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Iris Xe MAX GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

Our database shows that both the Radeon Vega 8 and Iris Xe MAX both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Iris Xe MAX has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the Radeon Vega 8 at 45 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Iris Xe MAX over the Radeon Vega 8.