Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720, 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

974 points
558% significantly better overall score
148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14184 points
497% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2372 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14105 points
497% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
2361 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points
412% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2331 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points
395% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3346 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W
233% significantly lower TDP
50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s
232% significantly higher pixel rate
3.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s
66% significantly higher texture rate
15.89 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
100% significantly more shading units
192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
49% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

12
16
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

264th of 586
469th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Iris Xe vs GeForce GT 720 benchmarks

For gaming, the Iris Xe graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 720 in our tests.

In addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GT 720 at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Iris Xe is better than the GeForce GT 720.

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