The Power of Integrated Graphics: A Deep Dive into the Intel Iris XE Graphics and Egpus

I've been able to utilize the 12th gen processor's Intel Iris XE Graphics, which has provided me with the ability to run various applications and games. Although I was only able to achieve a frame rate of 60 FPS in certain situations, it is clear that these integrated graphics have made significant strides in recent years. With the right emulation and settings, I was able to push the limits of what is possible on these integrated graphics.

One notable example was running PS2 games using PCSX2 Emulator, with a high frame rate of 1080p Vulcan rendering. Gran Turismo 4 was also tested at full speed, demonstrating the power and performance of these integrated graphics. Even more challenging emulators like God of War were able to run smoothly, thanks in part to the additional CPU power provided by the Intel Iris XE Graphics.

When transitioning to PS3 games using RPCS3 Emulator, I was able to achieve a respectable frame rate of 720p Vulcan rendering. Although Demon's Souls is one game that traditionally ran at 30 FPS, mods have unlocked its potential for higher frame rates. With these integrated graphics and the right emulator settings, it is possible to push this game to new heights.

The Nintendo Switch, emulated using Yuzu Emulator, was also tested. While not as powerful as the PS3 or PC games in terms of graphics performance, it was still able to run smoothly. However, I did note that there were limitations and potential for dips under 60 FPS, which could be addressed with further optimization.

In contrast, when using an Egpu over Thunderbolt 4, a significant difference became apparent. The Razer Dock, which provided 100 watts of power through its PD charging port, enabled the use of more powerful egpus like the RTX 3080 TI. This allowed for smoother performance and higher frame rates, even in demanding games.

For example, when running Doom Eternal at 1440p Ultra with Dynamic Resolution Scale enabled, I was able to achieve a consistent frame rate of over 100 FPS. This is significantly more impressive than what could be achieved with the integrated graphics alone. The Egpu setup also provided a notable improvement in performance and smoothness compared to using Thunderbolt egpus.

One potential limitation of using Thunderbolt egpus is that they may not be able to reach their maximum performance potential. In contrast, using an eGPU over Thunderbolt 4 provides a constant bandwidth, which can lead to better overall system performance and smoother gameplay.

The LattePanda Sigma: A Powerful Egpu for PC Gaming

In conclusion, the Intel Iris XE Graphics have made significant strides in recent years, providing improved performance and capabilities. However, when paired with an Egpu over Thunderbolt 4, the potential becomes truly impressive. The LattePanda Sigma is a prime example of this, offering unparalleled performance and smoothness for PC gaming.

The board's powerful Egpu setup enabled me to run demanding games like Doom Eternal at high frame rates and resolutions, demonstrating its capabilities as a robust Egpu solution. With its ability to deliver 100 watts of power through its PD charging port, the LattePanda Sigma is well-suited for those seeking a high-performance Egpu experience.

For those interested in learning more about this board or purchasing one, I will provide links in the description below. If you have any specific questions or requests for future content, please don't hesitate to reach out in the comments section.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new latte Panda Sigma and when it comes down to it this is the most insane single board computer they've ever created and it's definitely the most powerful latte panda on the market so far because with this we've got a 12 core 16 thread CPU up to 4.6 GHz and 16 GB of LP ddr5 running at 6,400 megahertz and this release from latte Pand was kind of a surprise release because usually they do post a few months or maybe even a few weeks in advance and actually the last board they released the latte Panda Alpha they ran a Kickstarter or an Indiegogo for it but this one kind of just showed right up on my radar and I knew I had to get my hands on it some of the cool new features here with the sigma is they've added two Thunderbolt four ports plus we can add up to three nvme ssds we've got three slots here which does make it a lot larger than the other latte pan they've released but compared to larger desktops or even some of the mini PCS on the market right now it's still a relatively small unit so yeah I'm really excited about testing out the new Sigma but first things first let's see what comes with this unit looks like we get a 90 W power supply and a few different power adapters for around the world got a bag of small accessories looks like we have a little power button there a couple extra screws here and there and they've also included a few extra thermally conductive pads for our m.2 drives that we can add to this unit and of course the sigma itself taking a closer look here now the overall SBC itself is relatively small I think what adds a little beef to it is the heat sink on the bottom and this is here to help cool off those nvme drives we can add here like I mentioned we've got three slots here so you know adding three drives to this can generate some heat we've got that aluminum heat sink right here on the bottom to keep them nice and chilly first thing I noticed here was the Abundant I/O now we've got a lot more than the alpha the delta or even the original latte pan I kind of expected this over here on this side side we've got our gpio layout plus we've got a com Port front panel port and a front audio port so I'm sure they're going to be coming up with a case for this later on down the road but this also supports a SATA drive we've got a power adapter here you can buy a separate cable it didn't come included with the kit but we've got that SATA port here so we can add way more storage to this taking a look at the front of the board and I'm going to call this the front because we do have our power button over here two full-size USB 2.0 ports and moving down just a little bit our Thunderbolt Port remember we've got two here so there's one around back but these are both 40 gig ports so we can add egpus and really fast storage to this unit you may have noticed it comes with a pre-installed heat sink and with this we've got a blower style heat sink this CPU will do up to 44 Watts and that's the base TDP that it's set up at out of the box but of course we can go up from there using a third party application I'm going to keep it at 44 watch just to see what this can do and in my next video we will take it up kind of push this thing to the Limit and of course moving around back we've got a 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports dual 2.5 GB ethernet a fullsize HDMI 2.1 Port so we can do 4K 60 out of this unit our second Thunderbolt four port and our 5.5 mm DC jack in for the included 90 W power supply the bottom heat plate can be removed very easily with four screws from the top and now you can see we've got our Wi-Fi pre-installed this is Wi-Fi 6 along with Bluetooth 5.2 and we've also got those three m.2 slots for storage we've got an m2e key this will support a 2230 m.2 and it runs at pcie 3.0 we've got an m key slot that supports 2280 mm nvmes and this is PCI E 4.0 and the final one here is the same 2280 but it's pcie 3.0 so in total with no USB storage on this device we could have three m.2 ssds and a SATA drive connected to this at the same time one of the first things I wanted to test with the sigma was single cable operation mode this monitor puts out 65 watt PD so I've got it plugged into one of the Thunderbolt ports and obviously Thunderbolt 4 is going to do video out so a single cable here for a power in and video out really handy and when it comes to the main specs The Latte Panda Sigma is rocking the new Intel i5 1340 P so we've got a 13 gen Intel CPU here with 12 cores 16 threads a base clock of 3.3 GHz and a boost up to 4.6 along with that we get those built-in Iris XE graphics with 80 execution units up to 1.45 GHz 16 GB of LP ddr5 Ram at 6,400 MHz running in dual Channel Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.2 and of course we've got those two 40 gig Thunderbolt 4 ports which could definitely play a big role in upping the GPU performance by connecting an external GPU to this thing for sure and this is capable of running Windows 10 a 11 or Linux in this video we're going to be taking a look at the windows 11 performance and by the way I do have a 500 GB Western Digital black nvme SSD installed here and I'm updated ready to go all right so here it is and yeah this is definitely a fast little single board computer I kind of expected it to be given that we have that new 13 gen I5 but as you can see we've got that 1340 P 12 cores 16 threads and it is dual Channel Ram this is really important for those integrated Graphics running 6400 MHz and of course the 8eu iris XE so over on our website they state that this will do up to 44 Watts now one thing you got to keep in mind with that 1240p it's actually rated up to 64 by Intel so there is more that we can get out of this board I looked at the BIOS we do kind of have a fully unlocked bios here didn't mess around with any of the settings because I wanted to see the stock configuration and we're right there at 40 watt so running that stress test you'll see see right here 38 watts and if I put a little load on that GPU it'll jump up to around 44 45 Watts not bad for what we have and the built-in cooler can keep up with this kind of TDP and I'm pretty sure we could get away with a little more out of it but uh we're going to stick right here just to see what it'll do out of the box web browsing is going to be super Snappy here we'll just head over to the latte Panda Sigma web page kind of an overview everything loads right up we can scroll on down and I'll leave a link for this website in the description so you can check this thing out but yeah right here up to 44 Watts with the built-in cooler they have this is just how they have it set in the Bios right now and uh lots of great information over here everything you basically need to know about this and these chips will do 4K video playback really well I've had amazing luck with Intel from 11th gen up to 12th and now we're on 13 so we got to make sure we're at 4K turn stats for nerds on full screen it 4K 60 HDR drop frames are going to be listed right up here and with 4K 60 video playback this doesn't pull over 15 watts total from the wall it's actually a pretty power efficient little chip these newer ones but they can draw some wattage when you need them to so looking at setting up a little Media Center not going to have an issue with it whether you want to run something like Netflix or even a little Plex server with this we've got a lot of storage options that we can use the next thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks that I ran on this unit first one here is geekbench 6 single core 2,213 multi 9,283 looking really good on single and multi with the new geek bench 6 3D Mark for the built-in igpu Wildlife 12,483 night raid 17,31 and the final one I ran here was fire strike these built-in Intel Iris XE Graphics fall far behind newer Radeon rdna2 and rdna 3 but uh doesn't mean we can't game on it so let's go ahead and check out some gaming and emulation here's Fallout 4 1080p low and you'll see my character running a little fast I do have a mod on just kind of a speed mod to get across really quickly but yeah I mean it's not bad we're not quite at a steady 60 if we drop this down to 900p we could do it next up we've got csgo 1080p low and after I was finished with this After Burner said that I had an average of 123 FPS but you'll see it drop under 100 every once in a while it's not horrible and you know locking this down at 60 you could have a really good experience with it OG Skyrim 1080p low I think we could go up to a low medium mix with this I've been able to do that on 12th gen with their Intel Iris XE Graphics but we're right there at 60 and I could definitely play through this if I needed to and the final PC game we're testing here on the igpu is Doom Eternal 720p low with Dynamic resolution scale on Dynamic resolution scale is going to be your best friend on these integrated Graphics but even then you know trying to get a steady 60 out of it it's really not going to do it you'll have those dips under 60 so this was all on the igpu and we'll take a look at an egpu over Thunderbolt 4 in a second but I did want to test out some emulation and first on the list we've got PS2 using pcsx2 1080p Vulcan back in great performance here Gran Turismo 4 running at full speed and we've got plenty of CPU power here for these emulators even a harder to emulate game like God of War I with these same settings 10 80P Vulcan backend is going to run it full speed so let's take it up a bit to PS3 and here's Demon Souls using rpcs 3 720p Vulcan back in this is one of those games that natively ran at 30 FPS and of course there are mods to unlock this going up to 60 but I left it here kind of at the stock configuration with these easier to emulate games on the igpu you should have a great time with PS3 and the final one I wanted to test here was switch using the Yuzu and emulator AES pretty decently but there's a lot of graphics performance that we can unlock here using an egpu over Thunderbolt 4 I've got my uh Razer dock here which actually does put out 100 wat PD charging so it'll power the board and we can also use Thunderbolt there with this 3080 TI go ahead and Boot It Up All I Need Is that single cable HDMI from the graphics card is going to the monitor now as you can see the fans on the egpu dock and the GPU have spun up and uh it's pretty cool having that PD out of these egpus a lot of the cheaper ones do around 30 to 65 and that should get you by with the sigma but this does 100 watt bring us right into windows and now instead of using those built-in Graphics we've still got that 1340 p as you can see here but we've got an RTX 380 TI connected to the latte Panda Sigma and if you remember on the igpu we did test out Doom Eternal but we had to set it to low 720p with dynamic resolution scale on and even then we couldn't really get a constant 60 out of it but now we're at 1440p Ultra getting over 100 FPS and if you're not familiar with Thunderbolt egpus we're not going to get the max performance out of this 3080 TI it's definitely Overkill this is what I already had set up in the dock I would recommend something like a 3060 non-ti variant it works great for 1080p gaming using Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4 overall really having a great time with this board there's a lot more that I want to test with it and I will have more videos on the way uh Thunderbolt egpus are pretty awesome but there's another way to do it we can actually use oculink over m.2 and since we've got that pcie 4.0 slot on the bottom I think I'm going to do a video on that and just show you the difference from what I've tested so far with an oculink setup I've just had a much more smoother experience and uh we can get a little more bandwidth out of it at least you know a constant bandwidth to get better performance out of our egpu so definitely keep an eye on the Channel if you're interested in seeing a video like that and in that video I'll have more data about total system power consumption and things like that we're also going to try to up the TDP on this but so far really powerful little board and it is the most powerful latte Panda so far and I'd expect the next one to release would actually outperform this that's how it works but that's going to wrap it up for my first look video at the latte Panda Sigma if you're interested in learning more or maybe even picking one up I'll leave some links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on this board be it more applications more benchmarks marks more PC games running on the igpu or external gpus just let me know down below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new latte Panda Sigma and when it comes down to it this is the most insane single board computer they've ever created and it's definitely the most powerful latte panda on the market so far because with this we've got a 12 core 16 thread CPU up to 4.6 GHz and 16 GB of LP ddr5 running at 6,400 megahertz and this release from latte Pand was kind of a surprise release because usually they do post a few months or maybe even a few weeks in advance and actually the last board they released the latte Panda Alpha they ran a Kickstarter or an Indiegogo for it but this one kind of just showed right up on my radar and I knew I had to get my hands on it some of the cool new features here with the sigma is they've added two Thunderbolt four ports plus we can add up to three nvme ssds we've got three slots here which does make it a lot larger than the other latte pan they've released but compared to larger desktops or even some of the mini PCS on the market right now it's still a relatively small unit so yeah I'm really excited about testing out the new Sigma but first things first let's see what comes with this unit looks like we get a 90 W power supply and a few different power adapters for around the world got a bag of small accessories looks like we have a little power button there a couple extra screws here and there and they've also included a few extra thermally conductive pads for our m.2 drives that we can add to this unit and of course the sigma itself taking a closer look here now the overall SBC itself is relatively small I think what adds a little beef to it is the heat sink on the bottom and this is here to help cool off those nvme drives we can add here like I mentioned we've got three slots here so you know adding three drives to this can generate some heat we've got that aluminum heat sink right here on the bottom to keep them nice and chilly first thing I noticed here was the Abundant I/O now we've got a lot more than the alpha the delta or even the original latte pan I kind of expected this over here on this side side we've got our gpio layout plus we've got a com Port front panel port and a front audio port so I'm sure they're going to be coming up with a case for this later on down the road but this also supports a SATA drive we've got a power adapter here you can buy a separate cable it didn't come included with the kit but we've got that SATA port here so we can add way more storage to this taking a look at the front of the board and I'm going to call this the front because we do have our power button over here two full-size USB 2.0 ports and moving down just a little bit our Thunderbolt Port remember we've got two here so there's one around back but these are both 40 gig ports so we can add egpus and really fast storage to this unit you may have noticed it comes with a pre-installed heat sink and with this we've got a blower style heat sink this CPU will do up to 44 Watts and that's the base TDP that it's set up at out of the box but of course we can go up from there using a third party application I'm going to keep it at 44 watch just to see what this can do and in my next video we will take it up kind of push this thing to the Limit and of course moving around back we've got a 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports dual 2.5 GB ethernet a fullsize HDMI 2.1 Port so we can do 4K 60 out of this unit our second Thunderbolt four port and our 5.5 mm DC jack in for the included 90 W power supply the bottom heat plate can be removed very easily with four screws from the top and now you can see we've got our Wi-Fi pre-installed this is Wi-Fi 6 along with Bluetooth 5.2 and we've also got those three m.2 slots for storage we've got an m2e key this will support a 2230 m.2 and it runs at pcie 3.0 we've got an m key slot that supports 2280 mm nvmes and this is PCI E 4.0 and the final one here is the same 2280 but it's pcie 3.0 so in total with no USB storage on this device we could have three m.2 ssds and a SATA drive connected to this at the same time one of the first things I wanted to test with the sigma was single cable operation mode this monitor puts out 65 watt PD so I've got it plugged into one of the Thunderbolt ports and obviously Thunderbolt 4 is going to do video out so a single cable here for a power in and video out really handy and when it comes to the main specs The Latte Panda Sigma is rocking the new Intel i5 1340 P so we've got a 13 gen Intel CPU here with 12 cores 16 threads a base clock of 3.3 GHz and a boost up to 4.6 along with that we get those built-in Iris XE graphics with 80 execution units up to 1.45 GHz 16 GB of LP ddr5 Ram at 6,400 MHz running in dual Channel Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.2 and of course we've got those two 40 gig Thunderbolt 4 ports which could definitely play a big role in upping the GPU performance by connecting an external GPU to this thing for sure and this is capable of running Windows 10 a 11 or Linux in this video we're going to be taking a look at the windows 11 performance and by the way I do have a 500 GB Western Digital black nvme SSD installed here and I'm updated ready to go all right so here it is and yeah this is definitely a fast little single board computer I kind of expected it to be given that we have that new 13 gen I5 but as you can see we've got that 1340 P 12 cores 16 threads and it is dual Channel Ram this is really important for those integrated Graphics running 6400 MHz and of course the 8eu iris XE so over on our website they state that this will do up to 44 Watts now one thing you got to keep in mind with that 1240p it's actually rated up to 64 by Intel so there is more that we can get out of this board I looked at the BIOS we do kind of have a fully unlocked bios here didn't mess around with any of the settings because I wanted to see the stock configuration and we're right there at 40 watt so running that stress test you'll see see right here 38 watts and if I put a little load on that GPU it'll jump up to around 44 45 Watts not bad for what we have and the built-in cooler can keep up with this kind of TDP and I'm pretty sure we could get away with a little more out of it but uh we're going to stick right here just to see what it'll do out of the box web browsing is going to be super Snappy here we'll just head over to the latte Panda Sigma web page kind of an overview everything loads right up we can scroll on down and I'll leave a link for this website in the description so you can check this thing out but yeah right here up to 44 Watts with the built-in cooler they have this is just how they have it set in the Bios right now and uh lots of great information over here everything you basically need to know about this and these chips will do 4K video playback really well I've had amazing luck with Intel from 11th gen up to 12th and now we're on 13 so we got to make sure we're at 4K turn stats for nerds on full screen it 4K 60 HDR drop frames are going to be listed right up here and with 4K 60 video playback this doesn't pull over 15 watts total from the wall it's actually a pretty power efficient little chip these newer ones but they can draw some wattage when you need them to so looking at setting up a little Media Center not going to have an issue with it whether you want to run something like Netflix or even a little Plex server with this we've got a lot of storage options that we can use the next thing I wanted to take a look at were some benchmarks that I ran on this unit first one here is geekbench 6 single core 2,213 multi 9,283 looking really good on single and multi with the new geek bench 6 3D Mark for the built-in igpu Wildlife 12,483 night raid 17,31 and the final one I ran here was fire strike these built-in Intel Iris XE Graphics fall far behind newer Radeon rdna2 and rdna 3 but uh doesn't mean we can't game on it so let's go ahead and check out some gaming and emulation here's Fallout 4 1080p low and you'll see my character running a little fast I do have a mod on just kind of a speed mod to get across really quickly but yeah I mean it's not bad we're not quite at a steady 60 if we drop this down to 900p we could do it next up we've got csgo 1080p low and after I was finished with this After Burner said that I had an average of 123 FPS but you'll see it drop under 100 every once in a while it's not horrible and you know locking this down at 60 you could have a really good experience with it OG Skyrim 1080p low I think we could go up to a low medium mix with this I've been able to do that on 12th gen with their Intel Iris XE Graphics but we're right there at 60 and I could definitely play through this if I needed to and the final PC game we're testing here on the igpu is Doom Eternal 720p low with Dynamic resolution scale on Dynamic resolution scale is going to be your best friend on these integrated Graphics but even then you know trying to get a steady 60 out of it it's really not going to do it you'll have those dips under 60 so this was all on the igpu and we'll take a look at an egpu over Thunderbolt 4 in a second but I did want to test out some emulation and first on the list we've got PS2 using pcsx2 1080p Vulcan back in great performance here Gran Turismo 4 running at full speed and we've got plenty of CPU power here for these emulators even a harder to emulate game like God of War I with these same settings 10 80P Vulcan backend is going to run it full speed so let's take it up a bit to PS3 and here's Demon Souls using rpcs 3 720p Vulcan back in this is one of those games that natively ran at 30 FPS and of course there are mods to unlock this going up to 60 but I left it here kind of at the stock configuration with these easier to emulate games on the igpu you should have a great time with PS3 and the final one I wanted to test here was switch using the Yuzu and emulator AES pretty decently but there's a lot of graphics performance that we can unlock here using an egpu over Thunderbolt 4 I've got my uh Razer dock here which actually does put out 100 wat PD charging so it'll power the board and we can also use Thunderbolt there with this 3080 TI go ahead and Boot It Up All I Need Is that single cable HDMI from the graphics card is going to the monitor now as you can see the fans on the egpu dock and the GPU have spun up and uh it's pretty cool having that PD out of these egpus a lot of the cheaper ones do around 30 to 65 and that should get you by with the sigma but this does 100 watt bring us right into windows and now instead of using those built-in Graphics we've still got that 1340 p as you can see here but we've got an RTX 380 TI connected to the latte Panda Sigma and if you remember on the igpu we did test out Doom Eternal but we had to set it to low 720p with dynamic resolution scale on and even then we couldn't really get a constant 60 out of it but now we're at 1440p Ultra getting over 100 FPS and if you're not familiar with Thunderbolt egpus we're not going to get the max performance out of this 3080 TI it's definitely Overkill this is what I already had set up in the dock I would recommend something like a 3060 non-ti variant it works great for 1080p gaming using Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4 overall really having a great time with this board there's a lot more that I want to test with it and I will have more videos on the way uh Thunderbolt egpus are pretty awesome but there's another way to do it we can actually use oculink over m.2 and since we've got that pcie 4.0 slot on the bottom I think I'm going to do a video on that and just show you the difference from what I've tested so far with an oculink setup I've just had a much more smoother experience and uh we can get a little more bandwidth out of it at least you know a constant bandwidth to get better performance out of our egpu so definitely keep an eye on the Channel if you're interested in seeing a video like that and in that video I'll have more data about total system power consumption and things like that we're also going to try to up the TDP on this but so far really powerful little board and it is the most powerful latte Panda so far and I'd expect the next one to release would actually outperform this that's how it works but that's going to wrap it up for my first look video at the latte Panda Sigma if you're interested in learning more or maybe even picking one up I'll leave some links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on this board be it more applications more benchmarks marks more PC games running on the igpu or external gpus just let me know down below but that's it for this one like always thanks for watching\n"