Tesla M6 Mobile 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 ranking622not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.26no data
ArchitectureGeneration 12.1 (2020−2021)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameDG1GM204
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date31 October 2020 (4 years ago)30 August 2015 (9 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 cores7681536
Core clock speed300 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1650 MHz1180 MHz
Number of transistorsno data5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate79.20113.3
Floating-point processing power2.534 TFLOPS3.625 TFLOPS
ROPs2464
TMUs4896

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 3.0 x16

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 typeLPDDR4XGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2133 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth68.26 GB/s160.4 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 October 2020 30 August 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 10 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 100 Watt

Iris Xe MAX Graphics has an age advantage of 5 years, a 180% more advanced lithography process, and 300% lower power consumption.

Tesla M6 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe MAX Graphics and Tesla M6 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe MAX Graphics is a notebook graphics card while Tesla M6 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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