NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs Intel Iris Xe MAX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs Intel Iris Xe MAX, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Intel Iris Xe MAX

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4302 points

479% significantly better overall score

742 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

20 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

76 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

75551 points

437% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

14058 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

75827 points

323% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

17892 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1455 MHz

385% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1755 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

1650 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

96 Bit

128 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

181% significantly higher memory bandwidth

68.26 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

25 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.16 Gigapixels/s

41% slightly higher pixel rate

39.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

140.4 Gigatexels/s

77% significantly higher texture rate

79.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.99 TFLOPS

254% 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

118th of 586

286th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 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 4050 Laptop vs Iris Xe MAX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU is faster than the Iris Xe MAX in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 4050 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 4050 Laptop 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 4050 Laptop at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop is faster than the Iris Xe MAX.