NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs Intel Iris Xe MAX, 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

1159 points

56% significantly better overall score

742 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

20 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17398 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15155 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14058 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points

17892 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1354 MHz

351% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1455 MHz

1650 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

64% significantly higher memory bandwidth

68.26 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

25 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

39.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s

79.2 Gigatexels/s

36% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.86 TFLOPS

2.53 TFLOPS

36% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

768

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20% slightly 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

253rd of 586

287th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

LPDDR4X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Iris Xe MAX specs and performance

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

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 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. Despite this, the Iris Xe MAX has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Iris Xe MAX has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 over the Iris Xe MAX.