Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs ATI VGA Wonder

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated618
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data14.75
ArchitectureWonder (1990−1992)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code name18800-1DG1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 February 1990 (34 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 coresno data768
Core clock speed10 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology800 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data25 Watt
Texture fill rateno data79.20
Floating-point processing powerno data2.534 TFLOPS
ROPs124
TMUsno data48

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x4
Width1-slotno data

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 typeDRAMLPDDR4X
Maximum RAM amount256 KB4 GB
Memory bus width32 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed10 MHz2133 MHz
Memory bandwidth40 MB/s68.26 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 Connectors1x VGANo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 February 1990 31 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 256 KB 4 GB
Chip lithography 800 nm 10 nm

Iris Xe MAX Graphics has an age advantage of 30 years, a 1638300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 7900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between VGA Wonder and Iris Xe MAX Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that VGA Wonder is a desktop card while Iris Xe MAX Graphics is a notebook one.


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