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Intel’s Iris Xe Max Discrete GPU Is Slower Than the Integrated Version By Joel Hruska on December 17, 2020 at 9:31 am
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The first thing I want to say here is that the Intel Iris Xe Max is not marketed as a gaming GPU, even though it’s a discrete solution. It is, however, identical to the well-received 11th Gen integrated GPU, and should therefore have at least some basic gaming capabilities. Our sister site PCMag recently took a laptop equipped with an Iris Xe Max for a spin, and what they found was rather odd.
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An Intel Xe Discrete Graphics card has been spotted within the Geekbench database which seems to be a rather entry-level variant. The card was spotted by TUM APISAK and was tested on an Intel 9th Gen platform.
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The same graphics card was also spotted within the SiSoftware Sandra database a while back with identical specifications. It seems like Intel is currently validating and testing its entry-level designs for Xe powered discrete graphics cards.
As per Geekbench, this particular Intel Xe Discrete graphics card features 128 compute units or EU s in Intel s case. This rounds up to 1024 cores for this particular card which is not huge at all considering the Intel Iris Xe Max for notebooks features a total of 768 cores in 96 EUs. This card isn t based on Xe-LP GPU since that maxes out at 96 EUs. It is possible that we are looking at an early variant of
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