Gen.After three years of teasing its return to the discrete graphics market, Intel has revealed its first product in the category, the Intel Iris Xe Max graphics, which will pair with the chipmaker’s new Tiger Lake processors for ultra-thin laptops to focus on content creation. The Tiger Lake SoCs and therefore the integrated GPU are manufactured in the modern 10nm+ (10nm SuperFin) process (improved 10nm process) at Intel and therefore should offer a very good efficiency. Therefore, the iGPU is still only for lowest graphical settings and low resolutions in demanding games. Compared to the older Ice Lake Iris Plus G7 GPU, the new Tiger Lake GPU should be approximately twice as fast.

Less demanding games like the Mass Effect Legendary Edition ran in medium settings fine. Horizon Zero Dawn or Cyberpunk 2077 did not start or were crashing - see list below). had problems when testing the various laptops (e.g. For gaming we are expecting a bit worse performance due to the missing dedicated graphics memory and driver support. First informations show that the chip can be configured at 12 and 28 Watt TDP default (as the Ice Lake-U chips) and the performance should be around a dedicated GeForce MX350 in 3DMark benchmarks. The performance depends on the TDP settings of the laptop and the used cooling.

The slowest variant offers only 1100 MHz boost (i5-1130G7, 12 Watt TDP). The GPU clocks with a base clock speed (guaranteed) of 400 MHz in all CPUs and can boost up to 1340 MHz (i7-1185G7). It is using the new Xe architecture (Gen12) and was introduced in September 2020. The Intel Xe Graphics G7 (Tiger-Lake U GPU with 96 EUs) is a integrated graphics card in the high end Tiger-Lake U CPUs (15 - 28 Watt).

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