NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs Intel Iris 540

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Intel Iris 540, 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

2077 points

875% significantly better overall score

213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

6079 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

418% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6252 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

370% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6697 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7143 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

415% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6277 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

395% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6234 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

469% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

418th of 586

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs Iris 540 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is faster than the Iris 540 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1060 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 Iris 540 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 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 over the Iris 540.