Iris Xe Max is based on Xe-LP microarchitecture and has a total of 96 execution units along with a clock speed of 1.65GHz
Like the Iris Xe in Tiger Lake, Iris Xe Max is based on Xe-LP microarchitecture. Iris Xe Max has a total of 96 execution units and a clock speed of 1.65GHz (up from 1.35GHz on Tiger Lake, while maintaining the same max number of EUs). The GPU also has 4GB of dedicated LPDDR4x memory with 68GB/sec of bandwidth. Intel also is using what it calls Dynamic Power Share to manage workloads between the CPU, integrated Iris Xe and the discrete Iris Xe Max. Intel shows a Tiger Lake processor with a GeForce MX350 being handily beaten by a Tiger Lake processor with Iris Xe Max in Handbrake. The delta is even greater compared to an 10th generation Core processor with a GeForce MX350. One of the key technologies introduced with Iris Xe Max when incorporated into a Tiger Lake-based system is Deep Link, which is able to leverage the processing power of both GPUs within a system for certain content creation tasks. In other words, both the integrated Iris Xe and the dedicated Iris Xe Max can use Intel’s common software framework to accelerate these workloads. Deep Link allows the Tiger Lake processor to manage both Xe graphics engines to share Xe media encoders and DP4a instructions. For example, Intel can combine the two media encoders in the Iris Xe with the two in the Iris Xe Max to accelerate single-stream encoding.
