AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB vs Intel Iris Xe, 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

4311 points

342% significantly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

89 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

64 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7692 points

4451% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

169 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

619.96 points

514% significantly higher Blender score

100.90 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

57968 points

308% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14184 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48131 points

241% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14105 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65528 points

448% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11957 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

77765 points

369% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16575 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz

276% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz

41% slightly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

15 W

900% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

99.8 Gigapixels/s

656% significantly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224.64 Gigatexels/s

750% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.19 TFLOPS

8.45 TFLOPS

17% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

499% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

499% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

433% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

116th of 586

265th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DDR4

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Iris Xe comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5600 XT beats the Iris Xe in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 Radeon RX 5600 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 XT at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 5600 XT over the Iris Xe.