Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80EU (Alder Lake) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80EU (Alder Lake) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80EU (Alder Lake)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1188 MHz
  • 975.6x more texture fill rate: 48.00 GTexel/s vs 49.2 billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 90 Watt
  • 11x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1150 vs 105
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 20 August 2015
Boost clock speed 1200 MHz vs 1188 MHz
Texture fill rate 48.00 GTexel/s vs 49.2 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 90 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1150 vs 105

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 768 vs 640
Core clock speed 1024 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines 768 vs 640

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80EU (Alder Lake)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1150
105
Name Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80EU (Alder Lake) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1150 105
PassMark - G3D Mark 5340
PassMark - G2D Mark 641
Geekbench - OpenCL 16728
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 60.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 758.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.279
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 29.738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 231.508
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80EU (Alder Lake) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.2 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Alder Lake GT1 GM206
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 20 August 2015
Place in performance rating 1108 547
Launch price (MSRP) $159
Price now $194.44
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 30.06

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz 1188 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1024 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 640 768
Pixel fill rate 24.00 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 48.00 GTexel/s 49.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 90 Watt
CUDA cores 768
Floating-point performance 1,825 gflops
Transistor count 2,940 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface Ring Bus PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 7.938" (20.2 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
SLI options 2x
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pins

API support

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount System Shared 2 GB
Memory bandwidth System Dependent 105.6 GB / s
Memory bus width System Shared 128 Bit
Memory clock speed System Shared 6.6 GB/s
Memory type System Shared GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround