Intel’s First Discrete GPU Appears to Slip Behind NVIDIA’s GeForce MX350

[Tsing]

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During last week’s earnings webcast, Intel CEO Bob Swan confirmed that his company’s first discrete GPU, the Iris Xe Max, had begun shipping. Unfortunately, early benchmarks spotted by TUM_APISAK suggest that it’s nothing to get too hyped about, even for those of you who have been following “DG1” and are fully aware of the fact that it’s essentially a repackaged iGPU designed for notebooks.



The Iris Xe Max managed to achieve OpenCL scores of 11,885 and 11,857 on two separate Geekbench runs. The scores suggest that the GPU could perform substantially worse than...

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[Auer]

Was anyone actually "hyped" about this to begin with???

 

[Uvilla]

Not bad if the tdp stuff is true.
Yeah, no one is hyped about this.

 

[ThreeDee]

How many of these can I run at once?

 

[Armenius]

How many of these can I run at once?

Should be able to run 25 of these on my home PC, no problem.

 

[LazyGamer]

Was anyone actually "hyped" about this to begin with???

For this SKU, not really. The MX-series of GPUs are slow enough to usually not be worth the trouble.

Any excitement I have will be around Intel growing the ecosystem around their graphics, namely software support and driver stability.