Radeon Instinct MI250 vs Iris Xe MAX Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking624not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.04no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.1 (2020−2021)CDNA 2.0 (2021)
GPU code nameDG1Aldebaran
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date31 October 2020 (4 years ago)8 November 2021 (3 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 cores76813312
Core clock speed300 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1650 MHz1700 MHz
Number of transistorsno data58,200 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate79.201,414
Floating-point processing power2.534 TFLOPS45.26 TFLOPS
ROPs24no data
TMUs48832

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 typeLPDDR4XHBM2e
Maximum RAM amount4 GB128 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit8192 Bit
Memory clock speed2133 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth68.26 GB/s3,277 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)N/A
Shader Model6.4N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.2N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 October 2020 8 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 128 GB
Chip lithography 10 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 500 Watt

Iris Xe MAX Graphics has 1900% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI250, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe MAX Graphics and Radeon Instinct MI250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe MAX Graphics is a notebook card while Radeon Instinct MI250 is a workstation one.


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Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics
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