Intel Iris Xe MAX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare Intel Iris Xe MAX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Intel Iris Xe MAX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

742 points

4358 points

487% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

20 FPS

94 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

63 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

90 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

49 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14058 points

85838 points

510% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17892 points

80080 points

347% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1020 MHz

239% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1650 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

1500 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

68.26 GB/s

384 GB/s

462% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

25 W

100% significantly lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

39.6 Gigapixels/s

48 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

79.2 Gigatexels/s

120 Gigatexels/s

51% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

2560

233% significantly more shading units

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

289th of 592

115th of 592

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 October

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

LPDDR4X

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Iris Xe MAX vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop beats the Iris Xe MAX in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5050 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. Despite this, the Iris Xe MAX has a slightly 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 MAX has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop at 50 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 5050 Laptop over the Iris Xe MAX.