Intel Iris Xe vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME, 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

2123 points

117% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

42 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

32 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

46 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

17 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

169 points

998 points

490% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14184 points

48735 points

243% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

40056 points

235% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

60508 points

265% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1257 MHz

319% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

1380 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

1066% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

44.16 Gigapixels/s

234% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

198.7 Gigatexels/s

652% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.45 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

6.36 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2304

499% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

499% 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

264th of 586

201st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2020 March

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 Radeon RX 590 GME benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 590 GME GPU is faster than the Iris Xe in gaming.

The Radeon RX 590 GME 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 Radeon RX 590 GME also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 GME at 175 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 590 GME over the Iris Xe.