Intel Iris Xe MAX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare Intel Iris Xe MAX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, 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

42789 points

5666% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

20 FPS

1019 FPS

1000 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

8 FPS

503 FPS

495 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

740 FPS

728 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

425 FPS

418 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14058 points

383325 points

2626% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17892 points

380401 points

2026% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

2017 MHz

572% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1650 MHz

2407 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

512 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

25 W

2200% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

39.6 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

969% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

21760

2733% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

680

1316% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

633% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

286th of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 October

2025 January

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 5090 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is better than the Iris Xe MAX in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Iris Xe MAX has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 5090 is faster than the Iris Xe MAX.