Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Laptop

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Laptop, 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

2485 points

155% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

62 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

30 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

43 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

23 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.90 points

1140.23 points

1030% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

48617 points

306% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

46592 points

181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

630 MHz

110% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

1140 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

300% significantly lower TDP

60 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

54.72 Gigapixels/s

314% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

72.96 Gigatexels/s

176% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.45 TFLOPS

80% significantly better floating point performance

4.67 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2048

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% 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

266th of 586

178th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

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 RTX A1000 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the RTX A1000 Laptop graphics card is better than the Iris Xe in our tests.

Our database shows that the RTX A1000 Laptop 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 RTX A1000 Laptop 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 RTX A1000 Laptop at 60 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 RTX A1000 Laptop is better than the Iris Xe.