Depending on how Intel has been pricing this, they could use this to very quickly break into the discrete GPU market for mobility. Interestingly, GPU Z was not able to correctly recognize the part - although this is not surprising considering it is a very new launch.

The Xe MAX GPU is clearly a MX450 competitor and offers superior value once you consider that its AI performance beats out an RTX 2080. Both of these scores are within error of margins so depending on your cooling solutions and TDP environments - these could change. Here we see that the Intel Xe MAX GPU easily beat out the NVIDIA MX450 at 1826 Time Spy points (the green part usually scores in the 1680 range) and is just slightly behind the MX450 in Fire Strike (green part scores in the 6800 range). The relevant benchmarks and GPUz screenshots are given below for convenience. The leak happened courtesy of momomo_us over at Twitter who linked to a video posted on bilibili featuring a small review of an Intel Xe GPU equipped notebook: Intel Xe MAX GPU third party benchmarks: trades blows with an NVIDIA MX450 (and wins in many cases) This is a great result considering this is Intel's absolute first time building a discrete GPU and combined with Deep Link tech (which offers 7x the performance of a MX350) - it is an incredible value proposition. Not only does it completely destroy NVIDIA's entry level MX350 but it trades blows with the MX450 (GTX 1050) and wins in most cases. The first third party benchmarks of Intel's newly launched Xe MAX GPU have leaked out and it is an absolute beast (considering its weight class).

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