Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, 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

66% significantly better overall score

584 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

169 points

1155 points

583% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.90 points

102.79 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14184 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11550 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14105 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10627 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11127 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9592 points

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

1100 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1085 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

400% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

17.36 Gigapixels/s

31% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

43.4 Gigatexels/s

64% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.45 TFLOPS

300% significantly better floating point performance

2.11 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

640

66% 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

264th of 586

311th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Iris Xe vs GeForce GTX 860M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Iris Xe beats the GeForce GTX 860M in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 860M 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. Despite this, the Iris Xe 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 860M at 75 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 GTX 860M.