Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, 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

8233 points

745% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

191 FPS

168 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

95 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

139 FPS

124 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

75 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

169 points

3149 points

1763% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.90 points

3690.41 points

3557% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

126840 points

960% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

120026 points

624% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

2280 MHz

659% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

2497 MHz

127% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

866% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

119.9 Gigapixels/s

808% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

299.6 Gigatexels/s

1034% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

3840

900% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

272nd of 597

51st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Iris Xe vs GeForce RTX 5060 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 GPU is faster than the Iris Xe in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5060 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 5060 also has a significantly 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 RTX 5060 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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