NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs Intel Iris Xe, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Intel Iris Xe

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

168% significantly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

63 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

44 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Low settings at 1080p

239 FPS

168 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

71 FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

1051% significantly higher Blender score

100.90 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55123 points

288% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14184 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points

234% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14105 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

326% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11957 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16575 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

312% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

36% slightly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

15 W

400% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

156% significantly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

156% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

8.45 TFLOPS

95% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

433% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% 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

170th of 586

264th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs Iris Xe comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the Iris Xe in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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 RTX 3050 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is faster than the Iris Xe.