I’ve been curious about the some of the low-end, yet low-energy, mini PCs that have been coming out, specifically Alder Lake ones.
N95 and N100 seem pretty cool, however I have no idea what the iGPU model is. I’m aware that one of the better performing iGPUs is called Iris Xe, not to be confused with Iris Xe Max, Iris Plus, Iris Pro, which believe me, I can’t tell the difference because there’s no number sequence.
For the longest time, it was easy: HD 2000, HD 3000, HD 4200/4400/4600, and then I started noticing HD 515/520, then HD 6XX, UHD 6XX, and so on.
But for the life of me, can someone please give me a direction with this iGPU naming scheme?! I like to compare GPUs and CPUs, especially amongst AMD since they’ve clearly held the torch at being the most affordable and powerful iGPUs in the late 2010s. The Ryzen series was exactly why I left Intel and their lackluster UHD series.
I’ve been interested to pick up the n100 because it’s so cheap, but I don’t even know what the iGPU is called, and I can’t compare it to any benchmarks since I don’t know the model numbers…
At the end of the day, I’m close to just saying Ryzen 7000 series and getting a 660m or 680m, because I know they’re powerful, and at least I can look up their model number
Is anyone else frustrated with this?!
Product naming is fun.
It’s also fun to start looking for their linux driver for the first time. You find something called i915 and wonder what it has to do with your gpu.
And that’s because intel 915 chipset from two decades ago was the last one to receive its very own graphics driver, after that they have just updated the existing one to include new devices. The driver was never renamed.
I usually search for the iGPU device ID, which is available on Intel ARK, then go to the list of Intel iGPUs on the english version of Wikipedia, as the list is very detailed and iGPUs with identical names can be distinguished by the device ID you got from Intel ARK. TechPowerUp has a nice GPU specs database too, but navigating through it can be a bit challenging…
Xe Max, Iris Plus, Iris Pro,
These have literally not been on sale for a few years now, so unless you’re buying used you won’t see them.
At the end of the day, I’m close to just saying Ryzen 7000 series and getting a 660m or 680m, because I know they’re powerful, and at least I can look up their model number
You do realize that you need a decoder wheel to find out what generation an AMD CPU is right?
These have literally not been on sale for a few years now, so unless you’re buying used you won’t see them.
All I ever buy is used; I never buy new computers. My computing isn’t that demanding that I would need latest things. But I don’t know anything about these iGPUs.
Fortunately, I can look these ones up to compare. But what’s the iGPU of a n95, and how does one look that up?
a decoder wheel? no you don’t… i’s something like xx4x is Zen 4 and xx3x is Zen 3… not hard…
*laughs in confusing radeon X, HD, R5, R7, R9, RX 400/500, VEGA ##, RX5000/6000*
HD 7990 >> RX7900 XTX
laughs in confusing radeon X, HD, R5, R7, R9, RX 400/500, VEGA ##, RX5000/6000 HD 7990 >> RX7900 XTX
Are you going to say anything about how the Ti 4000 series is older and slower than the RTX 4000 series as well then? It’s common to reuse numbers.
Nah, I already did my line. You can use that one.
But they’re obviously rated in a consecutive sequence of numbers. All you need to know is that the higher the sequence, the better it is from its predecessors or alternatives.
Obviously if the naming scheme changes, it’s a whole new sequence, but as long as there’s a chronological order, it’s easy to find the best, newer, or latest.