Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 G7 96EU

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
772.5x more texture fill rate: 105.6 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 16 nm
8x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 120 Watt

Launch date	2 Sep 2020 vs 26 December 2017
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 136.7 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 120 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

5x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 55% higher boost clock speed: 1709 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 67% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 768
27.6x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3917 vs 142

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1709 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines	1280 vs 768
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3917 vs 142

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

142

3917

Name	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	142	3917
PassMark - G3D Mark		9056
PassMark - G2D Mark		611
Geekbench - OpenCL		35108
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10818
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10818
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3417
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.0	Pascal
Code name	Tiger Lake GT2	GP106
Launch date	2 Sep 2020	26 December 2017
Place in performance rating	1698	303
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1709 MHz
Compute units	96
Core clock speed	300 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	422.4 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	3.379 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.690 TFLOPS
Pipelines	768	1280
Pixel fill rate	26.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s	136.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	120 Watt
Floating-point performance		4,375 gflops
Transistor count		4,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	IGP
Length		250 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
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		5 GB
Memory bandwidth		160.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		160 Bit
Memory clock speed		8008 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5