NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs Intel Iris 5100

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs Intel Iris 5100, 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

2262 points

1331% significantly better overall score

158 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

602% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4150 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

637% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3969 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

871% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3330 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

424% significantly higher core clock speed

200 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

30 W

383% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

1399% significantly higher pixel rate

4.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

178% significantly higher texture rate

44 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

420% significantly more shading units

320

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

160% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

462nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.3

GeForce GTX 970 vs Iris 5100 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card is better than the Iris 5100 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 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 970 also 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 5100 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 is better than the Iris 5100.