Intel Iris Xe vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, 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

14445 points

1383% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

292 FPS

269 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

213 FPS

198 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

260 FPS

245 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

124 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

169 points

4221 points

2397% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.90 points

2747.99 points

2623% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

176249 points

1374% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

177326 points

969% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1890 MHz

530% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

2310 MHz

110% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

2133% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

2140% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

2700% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.45 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

179% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

5120

1233% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

1233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

966% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

264th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2022 May

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 Radeon RX 6950 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU is faster than the Iris Xe in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6950 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 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 6950 XT over the Iris Xe.