NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs Intel Iris Xe MAX, 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

1038 points

39% slightly better overall score

742 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

20 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17398 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15155 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14058 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

17892 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

241% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

1650 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

54% significantly higher memory bandwidth

68.26 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

25 W

259% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

39.6 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

79.2 Gigatexels/s

38% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

2.53 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

Identical

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

264th of 590

291st of 590

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

LPDDR4X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 950 vs Iris Xe MAX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 950 GPU is faster than the Iris Xe MAX in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 950 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. Despite this, the Iris Xe MAX 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 MAX has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950 at 90 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 950 is better than the Iris Xe MAX.