NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs Intel Iris Xe, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points

8% slightly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS

Identical

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

1147% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

169 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

68% significantly higher Blender score

100.90 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14184 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14105 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11957 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16575 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

233% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

15 W

400% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

38% slightly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

72% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

66% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586

266th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs Iris Xe benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Iris Xe in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q is better than the Iris Xe.