Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX and NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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.

Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 11 month(s) later
33616.3x more texture fill rate: 79.20 GTexel/s vs 2.356 GTexel / s
96x more pipelines: 768 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 40 nm
Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 31 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) vs 800 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 311 vs 309
15.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1972 vs 126

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	31 Oct 2020 vs 26 November 2009
Texture fill rate	79.20 GTexel/s vs 2.356 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 31 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	311 vs 309
PassMark - G3D Mark	1972 vs 126

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Around 96% higher core clock speed: 589 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	589 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

311

309

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1972

126

Name	Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX	NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	14127
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	309
PassMark - G3D Mark	1972	126

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX	NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.1	Tesla 2.0
Code name	DG1	GT218
Launch date	31 Oct 2020	26 November 2009
Place in performance rating	520	519
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1650 MHz
Compute units	96
Core clock speed	300 MHz	589 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	40 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	8
Pixel fill rate	39.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	79.20 GTexel/s	2.356 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	31 Watt
Floating-point performance		22.432 gflops
Transistor count		260 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 2.0 x16
Width	IGP
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.1	10.1
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	68.26 GB/s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective)	800 MHz
Memory type	LPDDR4X	DDR2