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for a long time now there have only been two games in town if you wanted discreet

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graphics for your pc AMD or NVIDIA

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or one out for 3dfx but that's changing as the first systems

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with another discrete option are now on the market i'm talking about Intel's new

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iris xe max lineup that's right that's how it's pronounced

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and that's right the company most known for strapping integrated graphics to

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their cpus and calling it a day has now branched out to challenge not only AMD

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in another industry segment but now NVIDIA in a space they've long dominated

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but let's be clear xe max is only a starting point for team blue not a total

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game changer instead of a beefy GPU that's meant to rival the rtx 3080 or

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the rx 6800 xt Intel's first discrete

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offering is a mobile GPU meant primarily for thin and light notebooks

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but why the answer is that the chip is being

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marketed much more toward content creators than gamers don't get me wrong

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you can game on the xe max with more aplomb than you could with mobile eye

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gpus as Intel is touting frame rates between 30 and 45 frames per second in

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modern graphically intense titles at 1080p albeit at low to medium settings

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you see although the xc max is indeed a chip specifically made to be a GPU and

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not some kind of CPU Intel just repurposed it has a rather small die

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which definitely puts a cap on how much it can actually do for gamers

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and unlike other solutions we've seen where an integrated GPU can work with a

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discrete chip to render the same frame more quickly like what we saw with

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Radeon dual graphics xe max can't do this with the main CPU which further

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limits its appeal as a gaming platform but things should be more interesting on

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the content creation side xc max supports machine learning to speed up

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rendering tasks and although we just stated that xe max can't team up with

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the igpu to work on the same frame the built-in ai can delegate separate tasks

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to the integrated and discrete gpus more effectively which could be helpful for

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editors trying to process multiple video clips at the same time for example

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obviously this isn't as good as getting your work done on a desktop editing rig

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with dual slot gpus but it's not meant to be

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one key benefit that Intel is heavily trying to get across to its consumers is

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how its dynamic power sharing can more efficiently allocate power between the

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CPU the discrete GPU and integrated graphics though exactly how much battery

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you'll save will probably depend a lot on your workload to be fair to Intel

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though they are using low power vram for additional battery savings and early

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reviews indicate that xe max looks like a significant step up in performance

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from a typical igpu for content creators even if you just leave the laptop

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plugged in however given the obvious limitations of the chip it's probably

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not going to blow you away as those who need to do serious content creation on

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the road can always just bring along a laptop with more powerful internals plus

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an ac adapter unless they're fighting serious size and weight limitations but

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this is still an important first step for Intel as it's set to release an

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actual gaming graphics card with modern features like ray tracing support

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sometime in 2021 and with Intel saying that xcmax rivals

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entry level solutions from NVIDIA for gaming and beats them in certain

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rendering tasks it'll be interesting to see if they can hold their own against

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existing high-end desktop parts assuming of course people can even get their

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hands on one without buying it from some e-vase scalper

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check out MSI's mag-27 4qrf qd it's a

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27-inch gaming monitor featuring 1440p resolution a rapid ips panel with a 1

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millisecond response time and a 165 hertz refresh rate on a panel with

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quantum dot technology for color enhancement it features g-sync support

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to cut down on screen tearing and a height adjustable ARM making it a

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comfortable and accurate solution if you're into esports titles check it out

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