Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs Apollo Lake GT1 5

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated622
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data14.25
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameApollo Lake GT1 5DG1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)31 October 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores144768
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology14 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data25 Watt
Texture fill rateno data79.20
Floating-point processing powerno data2.534 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs1848

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x4

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataLPDDR4X
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2133 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data68.26 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe MAX Graphics has a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Apollo Lake GT1 5 and Iris Xe MAX Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apollo Lake GT1 5 is a desktop card while Iris Xe MAX Graphics is a notebook one.


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Intel Apollo Lake GT1 5
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