Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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).

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
687x more texture fill rate: 52.80 GTexel/s vs 76.86 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 28 nm
Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 79.859 vs 76.687
Around 28% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1137.615 vs 890.785
2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 61.688 vs 28.659

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 Sep 2020 vs 26 November 2015
Texture fill rate	52.80 GTexel/s vs 76.86 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	79.859 vs 76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1137.615 vs 890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	61.688 vs 28.659

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

3.9x more core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1201 MHz vs 1100 MHz
2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384

Core clock speed	1176 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1201 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 384

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

79.859

76.687

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1137.615

890.785

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

61.688

28.659

Name	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	2666
PassMark - G2D Mark	383
Geekbench - OpenCL	11991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	79.859	76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1137.615	890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.569
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	61.688	28.659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	192.566
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Tiger Lake GT1	GM206
Launch date	2 Sep 2020	26 November 2015
Place in performance rating	594	978
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1201 MHz
Compute units	48
Core clock speed	300 MHz	1176 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	211.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1.690 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	844.8 GFLOPS
Pipelines	384	1024
Pixel fill rate	13.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	52.80 GTexel/s	76.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Floating-point performance		2,460 gflops
Transistor count		2,940 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	IGP
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		7012 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5