NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 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

325 points
974 points
199% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
24 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
14 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
15 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
10 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.07 points
100.90 points
86% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6300 points
14184 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6087 points
14105 points
131% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6165 points
11957 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5513 points
16575 points
200% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

55 W
15 W
266% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.53 Gigapixels/s
25% slightly higher pixel rate
13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.79 Gigatexels/s
26.4 Gigatexels/s
6% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
Identical
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
33% slightly more render output processors
12

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

368th of 586
266th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February
2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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 745 vs Iris Xe specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Iris Xe beats the GeForce GTX 745 in gaming performance.

In addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 745 at 55 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Iris Xe over the GeForce GTX 745.

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