And sometimes even inferior to him
In addition to today’s 3DMark Intel Iris Xe Max discrete graphics benchmark, you can add scores from several games. The novelty was tested in four games, and the results are not impressive.
Why Intel even released the Iris Xe Max graphics card? In games, it is often not particularly faster than the integrated Intel Xe GPU
As you can see, in some games the new 3D card only slightly bypasses or even lags behind the integrated AMD GPUs. But the most revealing thing is that Iris Xe Max in no game has a particular advantage over iGPU Xe in the Core i7-1165G7 processor, and sometimes it manages to be inferior to the latter. Yes, they have an identical configuration, but still the discrete video card has 4 GB of its own memory, and the core frequency there is 300 MHz higher. But, as we can see, this does not help.
Of course, when testing laptops, you should always remember that different mobile PCs with the same components may show different results, since they have their own settings for power limits, different cooling, and so on. But so far it is not at all very clear why Iris Xe Max is needed in conjunction with top-end Tiger Lake processors, which have GPUs identical in basic parameters.
