The Intel Iris Xe vs Arc graphics battle is somewhat puzzling, as they represent two product lines of discrete graphics processing units based on Intel's Xe microarchitecture.

Launched near the end of 2020, Intel's Iris Xe marked its formal entry into the discrete graphics market. It started off with the Intel Iris Xe MAX GPUs that were designed for laptops and now it's ...

AMD and Nvidia continue to garner the lion’s share of gamer’s respect. But if you’re on a budget, or you want a thin laptop, Intel’s Iris Xe is your best bet.

Intel Iris Xe Max (Acer Swift 3x with Core i7-1165G7/Iris Xe Max) is the blue bar above, vs. Nvidia’s GeForce MX350 (running alongside a Core i7-1065G7), the green bar above.

Ultimately, the architectural differences impact the types of tasks each integrated GPU excels at. Intel’s Iris Xe is generally better for productivity and light tasks, while AMD’s Radeon Vega can ...

As for games, Intel said the Iris Xe Max graphics also deliver 1080p graphics in a wide variety of popular games. Intel claimed its GPUs can outperform games on laptops that use Nvidia MX350 ...

We're still a little way off from having Intel join the discrete graphics card maelstrom, but we can at least say that next year it's going to release the Intel Xe and start pushing for gaming GPU ...

Intel didn’t say all games will be playable at 1080p with Iris Xe Graphics, but it seems like a lot more could be than what it showed off at its August 2020 press event: PlayerUnknown’s ...

The leak, as spotted by Twitter user APISAK (via Videocardz), pegs an Intel Iris Xe graphics part as having 96 execution units (EUs) and 768 GPU cores, clocked at 1.3GHz. You may like ...

They’re similar to Nvidia’s Tensor cores on RTX 30-series graphics cards, and Intel says they provide the best quality with XeSS. However, XeSS can also work without the XMX cores.

It’s also smart enough to switch to integrated graphics when they might be more effective — Dota 2 runs slightly faster on the built-in Iris Xe than it does either the Xe Max or NVIDIA’s ...