NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

5276 points

441% significantly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

103 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

144 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

44 FPS

Valorant FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

287 FPS

90 FPS significantly higher Valorant FPS

197 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

5086% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

169 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

2196% significantly higher Blender score

100.90 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points

579% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14184 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points

430% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14105 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

648% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11957 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

420% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16575 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

339% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

61% significantly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

15 W

1033% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

546% significantly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

653% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

50% significantly better floating point performance

8.45 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

833% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

366% 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

98th of 586

267th 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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Iris Xe comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU is faster than the Iris Xe in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 also has a significantly 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 is better than the Iris Xe.