A few weeks ago, Intel announced 11 generation Tiger Lake processors for laptops based on the Willow Cove architecture and lithography 10 nm SuperFin. With the new cores, integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics also entered the game, making it the first product to take advantage of the rebuilt Xe architecture. For the manufacturer, it is certainly an apple of the eye, especially since the plans for this architecture are very extensive and apply not only to laptops, but also to desktops, servers and even supercomputers. In this way, Intel wants to enter the game as the third major manufacturer of dedicated graphics cards after years of absence in this market. The first combat test, however, will be the more modest Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics card, which is to fight NVIDIA GeForce MX systems in notebooks. As the first editorial office in Poland and one of the few in the world, we invite you to test a laptop with a dedicated Iris Xe MAX Graphics card.

Author: Damian Marusiak

Acer Swift 3X will be based on processors 11 Intel Tiger Lake-U generation. We will get a choice of 4-core and 8-thread Intel Core i5 units – 1135 G7 and Intel Core i7 – 1165 G7. An even more interesting element of the design will be the presence of a dedicated graphics card. Not NVIDIA cards and not AMD. I am talking about the first graphics card from Intel in the form of the Iris Xe MAX Graphics chip in twenty years. These are the first steps of the manufacturer to create an attractive GPU line that will be able to compete with both AMD and NVIDIA. However, the full potential of the Xe architecture will not be seen until next year, when much more advanced designs based on the Xe-HP architecture with hardware Ray Tracing acceleration will come out. The Acer Swift 3X laptop has the first card, which until recently was known as Intel DG1 – Discrete Graphics 1.

As the only editorial office in Poland, we invite you to Testing the Acer Swift 3X laptop with a dedicated Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics card. Will it be able to break the hegemony of NVIDIA?

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Perhaps to the surprise of many people, the dedicated Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics card in terms of specifications will be very similar to the integrated Iris Xe Graphics chip. Like iGPU, it has 96 Execution units (EU), which translates into 768 The two differences are the amount of RAM allocated and the core clock. Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics are available 4 GB of LPDDR4x RAM clocked at 4267 MHz, which translates into bandwidth order 68 GB / sec. The core clock is also noticeably higher, reaching a maximum of 1650 MHz. Due to the fact that it is a dedicated card, it is not associated with the processor with a common energy limit. This means that, for example, in games, the processor receives the entire energy budget and can work with a higher clock, and the Iris Xe MAX Graphics card has its own budget and thus, regardless of the processor, it can achieve a higher clock speed in the Boost mode.

Acer Swift 3X setup:

• Intel Core i7 processor – 1165 G7 (2.8 GHz – 4.7 GHz)
• 16 GB of RAM LPDDR4X 4266 MHz / Dual Channel
• Integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics
• Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics / 4 GB LPDDR4x
• Matrix 14, 0 “/ Matte IPS / Resolution 1920 x 1080 pixels
• SSD: 1 TB / Micron 2210 / PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe Interface
• Microsoft Windows operating system 10 Home 2004

Another feature of the Acer Swift 3X laptop is undoubtedly the use of Intel Tiger Lake processors (11 generation of Intel Core chips). There was a lot of talk about processors long before their final debut (September 2). First of all, they use the redesigned Willow Cove architecture, based on last year’s Sunny Cove. Mainly the cache memory subsystem has been changed, increasing the number of L1 cache, L2 cache and L3 cache. Also used was a noticeably improved 10 nm technological process, named 10 nm SuperFin. The name is related primarily to the use of new SuperFin transistors, which are to enable work with a higher clock at the same time lower voltages. The tested version of Acer has an Intel Core i7 unit – 1135 G7, equipped with 4 cores and 8 threads. The base clock of the processor is 2.8 GHz with the possibility of increasing in Turbo Boost 2.0 mode to a maximum of 4.7 GHz. Intel Core i7 – 1165 The G7 has a default TDP of 28 W. The processor not only supports the Thunderbolt 4 platform, but is also the first to introduce PCIe 4.0 to notebooks. Also supports DDR4 3200 MHz, LPDDR4X 4267 MHz and LPDDR5 5400 MHz – the latter will not appear in laptops, however, until next year.

Memory Bandwidth

1468 MHz

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