NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB 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

4534 points
365% significantly better overall score
974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

112 FPS
88 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS
42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
63 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points
2231% significantly higher Blender score
100.90 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points
551% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
14184 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points
404% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
14105 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points
605% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
11957 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points
399% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
16575 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz
200% significantly higher core clock speed
300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz
54% significantly higher boost clock speed
1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W
15 W
433% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s
418% significantly higher pixel rate
13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s
547% significantly higher texture rate
26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS
29% slightly better floating point performance
8.45 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
900% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
400% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
300% significantly more render output processors
12

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586
265th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs Iris Xe specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card is better than the Iris Xe in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 Laptop also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the Iris Xe.

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