Intel Iris Xe MAX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare Intel Iris Xe MAX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, 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

742 points
5925 points
698% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

20 FPS
116 FPS
96 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS
80 FPS
72 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
112 FPS
100 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS
61 FPS
53 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14058 points
104383 points
642% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17892 points
98514 points
450% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz
952 MHz
217% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1650 MHz
13% slightly higher boost clock speed
1455 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
79% significantly lower TDP
45 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

39.6 Gigapixels/s
69.84 Gigapixels/s
76% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

79.2 Gigatexels/s
151.3 Gigatexels/s
91% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
3328
333% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
104
116% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

24
48
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

286th of 586
84th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 October
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

LPDDR4X
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Iris Xe MAX vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop graphics card is better than the Iris Xe MAX in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop over the Iris Xe MAX.

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