NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs Intel Iris Xe MAX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 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

2457 points
231% significantly better overall score
742 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
20 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points
109% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
17398 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
15155 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points
159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
14058 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
17892 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz
401% significantly higher core clock speed
300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz
3% slightly higher boost clock speed
1650 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s
181% significantly higher memory bandwidth
68.26 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
25 W
380% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s
107% significantly higher pixel rate
39.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s
72% significantly higher texture rate
79.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.04 TFLOPS
59% significantly better floating point performance
2.53 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280
66% significantly more shading units
768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
66% significantly more texture mapping units
48

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
100% significantly more render output processors
24

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586
287th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July
2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
LPDDR4X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs Iris Xe MAX comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB beats the Iris Xe MAX in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 MAX has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB at 120 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is better than the Iris Xe MAX.

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