NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 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

1789 points

83% significantly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

1847% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

169 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

244% significantly higher Blender score

100.90 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14184 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14105 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11957 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16575 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

393% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

34% slightly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

15 W

433% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

438% significantly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

348% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

8.45 TFLOPS

122% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

233% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 586

267th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs Iris Xe benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q beats the Iris Xe in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 1060 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 1060 Max-Q also 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q at 80 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q over the Iris Xe.