Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX vs AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX and AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 39% higher boost clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 1183 MHz
  • 1538.5x more texture fill rate: 79.20 GTexel/s vs 51.48 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 768 vs 640
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 50 Watt
Launch date 31 Oct 2020 vs 18 April 2017
Boost clock speed 1650 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Texture fill rate 79.20 GTexel/s vs 51.48 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 50 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)

  • 3.7x more core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective)
Core clock speed 1100 MHz vs 300 MHz
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)

Name Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)
Geekbench - OpenCL 14238
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6889
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6889
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3214
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3214
PassMark - G2D Mark 311
PassMark - G3D Mark 1972

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX AMD Radeon RX 550 (Laptop)

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.1 GCN 4.0
Code name DG1 Lexa
Launch date 31 Oct 2020 18 April 2017
Place in performance rating 523 not rated
Type Laptop Desktop
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP) $79.99
Price now $75
Value for money (0-100) 56.41

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1650 MHz 1183 MHz
Compute units 96
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 633.6 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5.069 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 2.534 TFLOPS
Pipelines 768 640
Pixel fill rate 39.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 79.20 GTexel/s 51.48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 50 Watt
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs
Transistor count 2,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x8
Width IGP
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 400 Watt

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 68.26 GB/s 112 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) 7000 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)