Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Laptop

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 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

5498 points

464% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

140 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

64 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

95 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

54 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.90 points

2640.64 points

2517% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14184 points

106611 points

651% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14105 points

73002 points

417% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

97351 points

714% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

91700 points

453% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1140 MHz

280% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

1680 MHz

52% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

134.4 Gigapixels/s

918% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

268.8 Gigatexels/s

918% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.45 TFLOPS

17.2 TFLOPS

103% 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

160

566% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

566% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

265th of 586

92nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2021 April

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 A4000 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the RTX A4000 Laptop graphics card is better than the Iris Xe in our tests.

Our database shows that the RTX A4000 Laptop 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 RTX A4000 Laptop 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 RTX A4000 Laptop at 140 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A4000 Laptop over the Iris Xe.