Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, 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

5591 points

474% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

135 FPS

111 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

66 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

95 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

52 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

169 points

2317 points

1271% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.90 points

2880.41 points

2754% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

97092 points

712% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

91845 points

454% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

2317 MHz

672% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

2572 MHz

133% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

766% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

82.3 Gigapixels/s

523% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

205.8 Gigatexels/s

679% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2560

566% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 597

91st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Iris Xe vs GeForce RTX 5050 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card is better than the Iris Xe in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 5050 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5050 at 130 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5050 is better than the Iris Xe.