for a long time now there have only been two games in town if you wanted discreet
graphics for your pc AMD or NVIDIA
or one out for 3dfx but that's changing as the first systems
with another discrete option are now on the market i'm talking about Intel's new
iris xe max lineup that's right that's how it's pronounced
and that's right the company most known for strapping integrated graphics to
their cpus and calling it a day has now branched out to challenge not only AMD
in another industry segment but now NVIDIA in a space they've long dominated
but let's be clear xe max is only a starting point for team blue not a total
game changer instead of a beefy GPU that's meant to rival the rtx 3080 or
the rx 6800 xt Intel's first discrete
offering is a mobile GPU meant primarily for thin and light notebooks
but why the answer is that the chip is being
marketed much more toward content creators than gamers don't get me wrong
you can game on the xe max with more aplomb than you could with mobile eye
gpus as Intel is touting frame rates between 30 and 45 frames per second in
modern graphically intense titles at 1080p albeit at low to medium settings
you see although the xc max is indeed a chip specifically made to be a GPU and
not some kind of CPU Intel just repurposed it has a rather small die
which definitely puts a cap on how much it can actually do for gamers
and unlike other solutions we've seen where an integrated GPU can work with a
discrete chip to render the same frame more quickly like what we saw with
Radeon dual graphics xe max can't do this with the main CPU which further
limits its appeal as a gaming platform but things should be more interesting on
the content creation side xc max supports machine learning to speed up
rendering tasks and although we just stated that xe max can't team up with
the igpu to work on the same frame the built-in ai can delegate separate tasks
to the integrated and discrete gpus more effectively which could be helpful for
editors trying to process multiple video clips at the same time for example
obviously this isn't as good as getting your work done on a desktop editing rig
with dual slot gpus but it's not meant to be
one key benefit that Intel is heavily trying to get across to its consumers is
how its dynamic power sharing can more efficiently allocate power between the
CPU the discrete GPU and integrated graphics though exactly how much battery
you'll save will probably depend a lot on your workload to be fair to Intel
though they are using low power vram for additional battery savings and early
reviews indicate that xe max looks like a significant step up in performance
from a typical igpu for content creators even if you just leave the laptop
plugged in however given the obvious limitations of the chip it's probably
not going to blow you away as those who need to do serious content creation on
the road can always just bring along a laptop with more powerful internals plus
an ac adapter unless they're fighting serious size and weight limitations but
this is still an important first step for Intel as it's set to release an
actual gaming graphics card with modern features like ray tracing support
sometime in 2021 and with Intel saying that xcmax rivals
entry level solutions from NVIDIA for gaming and beats them in certain
rendering tasks it'll be interesting to see if they can hold their own against
existing high-end desktop parts assuming of course people can even get their
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