NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q vs Intel Iris Xe

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

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q

Intel Iris Xe

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

974 points

Identical

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

21 FPS

24 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

Identical

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

Identical

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q and the Iris Xe? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.56 points

124% significantly higher Blender score

100.90 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20678 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14184 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18970 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14105 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19975 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11957 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18555 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16575 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1151 MHz

283% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1291 MHz

17% 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

41.31 Gigapixels/s

212% significantly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.97 Gigatexels/s

134% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

8.45 TFLOPS

326% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

100% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

265th of 586

264th 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 Ti Max-Q vs Iris Xe specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Iris Xe GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 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 Ti Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Iris Xe over the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q.