AMD Radeon RX 6800M vs Intel Iris Xe

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800M 12 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

4979 points

411% significantly better overall score

974 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

24 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

78 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

14 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

43 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11742 points

6847% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

169 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1392.24 points

1279% significantly higher Blender score

100.90 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93784 points

561% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14184 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55272 points

291% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14105 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87678 points

633% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11957 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

97983 points

491% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16575 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2300 MHz

666% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

134% significantly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

15 W

866% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

1151% significantly higher pixel rate

13.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

368 Gigatexels/s

1293% significantly higher texture rate

26.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.78 TFLOPS

39% slightly better floating point performance

8.45 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

566% significantly more shading units

384

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

433% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

102nd of 586

265th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

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 6800M vs Iris Xe specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6800M beats the Iris Xe in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800M 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 6800M 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 Radeon RX 6800M at 145 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 Radeon RX 6800M over the Iris Xe.