Intel's expectations for the Xe Max instead revolve, almost entirely, around content creation with a side of machine learning and video encoding.
Our GPU tests largely revolve around gaming, using 3DMark's well-known benchmark suite, which includes gaming, fps-focused tests such as Time Spy and Night Raid. I get that having a thin-and-light notebook with a little more creative juice makes sense for people working on the go, but in a desktop form factor creators will surely be happy to drop a little extra upgrade cash on a better GPU than Intel can currently offer.The confusion here largely springs from mainstream consumer expectations of a GPU versus what Intel's doing with the Xe Max. Quite where there is a need for such Iris Xe Max-powered desktop machines I don't really know. That's likely to be an OEM-only enterprise and Intel is specifically talking about 'value desktops' too, so the DIY market needn't worry. What I'm not as sure about is the fact that Intel is also going to be bringing it's discrete GPU to market in desktop form at some point in the first half of 2021. And you can bet that the likes of Acer, Asus, and Dell-who are all bringing such machines to market in November-have been given favourable rates for creating all-Intel machines instead.
It's a smart play for Intel, dropping its own discrete Xe Max GPUs into laptops that might otherwise aim for Nvidia's low-powered MX350 platform instead. By utilising the two GPUs, and the multiple media encoding engines in such an Iris Xe-based system, Intel has demonstrated enhanced performance in Adobe Lightroom and even in the CPU-based Handbrake video encoding benchmark, to the tune of 1.4x and 1.2x respectively. But the sort of compute-based tasks creators need help with are far easier to run across different chips.
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