NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 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

1261 points

29% slightly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

28 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

19 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2038 points

1105% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

169 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

194.26 points

92% significantly higher Blender score

100.90 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16368 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14184 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16340 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14105 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18409 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11957 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18023 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16575 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1006 MHz

235% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1058 MHz

1100 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

195 W

15 W

1200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.86 Gigapixels/s

156% significantly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

135.4 Gigatexels/s

412% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.25 TFLOPS

8.45 TFLOPS

159% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

300% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

433% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 586

265th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 680 vs Iris Xe benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 680 graphics card is better than the Iris Xe in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 680 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 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 680 is faster than the Iris Xe.