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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Intel Iris Xe

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4562 points

368% 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

89 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

79 FPS

64 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

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

2231% significantly higher Blender score

100.90 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

551% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14184 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

404% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14105 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

605% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11957 points

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

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 597

271st of 597

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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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 addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop at 80 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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