Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA RTX A500 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

1882 points

93% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

49 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

24 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

33 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

18 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.90 points

697.32 points

591% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

40962 points

242% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

37410 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

832 MHz

177% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

1537 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

49.18 Gigapixels/s

272% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

98.37 Gigatexels/s

272% significantly higher texture rate

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

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 597

218th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2022 March

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 A500 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop GPU is faster than the Iris Xe in gaming.

The RTX A500 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 A500 Laptop 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A500 Laptop is better than the Iris Xe.