NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 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

1966 points
101% significantly better overall score
974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2920 points
1627% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
169 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points
276% significantly higher Blender score
100.90 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36447 points
156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
14184 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32737 points
132% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
14105 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points
207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
11957 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
16575 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz
239% significantly higher core clock speed
300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz
2% slightly higher boost clock speed
1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W
15 W
133% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s
172% significantly higher pixel rate
13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s
172% significantly higher texture rate
26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS
8.45 TFLOPS
266% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
166% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
166% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
166% significantly more render output processors
12

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 586
264th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April
2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs Iris Xe benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Iris Xe in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 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 1650 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 1650 Max-Q at 35 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 1650 Max-Q over the Iris Xe.

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