Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, 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

3755 points

285% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

96 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

45 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

64 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

35 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

169 points

1346 points

696% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.90 points

1954.21 points

1836% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14184 points

76373 points

438% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14105 points

58378 points

313% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

73300 points

513% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

69543 points

319% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

562 MHz

87% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

1200 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

366% significantly lower TDP

70 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

57.6 Gigapixels/s

336% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

124.8 Gigatexels/s

372% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.45 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

7.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

3328

766% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

333% 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

130th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2021 August

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 A2000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A2000 GPU is faster than the Iris Xe in gaming.

Our database shows that the RTX A2000 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 A2000 also has a slightly 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 RTX A2000 at 70 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 RTX A2000 over the Iris Xe.