NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 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

3468 points

367% significantly better overall score

742 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

20 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71667 points

311% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17398 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56109 points

270% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15155 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points

351% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14058 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

17892 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz

417% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1650 MHz

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

224 GB/s

228% significantly higher memory bandwidth

68.26 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

25 W

420% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s

43% significantly higher pixel rate

39.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

79% significantly higher texture rate

79.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.10 TFLOPS

259% significantly better floating point performance

2.53 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

233% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

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

139th of 586

285th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

LPDDR4X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 vs Iris Xe MAX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 GPU is faster than the Iris Xe MAX in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3050 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 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 Xe MAX has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3050 at 130 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 GeForce RTX 3050 over the Iris Xe MAX.