NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU 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: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
  • 2.7x more core clock speed: 817 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 17% higher boost clock speed: 1282 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • Around 46% higher texture fill rate: 153.8 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
  • 5x more pipelines: 3840 vs 768
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 10 nm
  • 12.8x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1821 vs 142
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 2 Sep 2020
Core clock speed 817 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 1282 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Texture fill rate 153.8 GTexel/s vs 105.6 GTexel/s
Pipelines 3840 vs 768
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 10 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1821 vs 142

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

  • 4x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 60 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 60 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q
GPU 2: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1821
142
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU
PassMark - G3D Mark 13253
PassMark - G2D Mark 589
Geekbench - OpenCL 78982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 330.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3461.767
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 26.167
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 143.293
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 979.608
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8054
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 21278
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8054
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1821 142

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Generation 12.0
Code name GA106 Tiger Lake GT2
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 2 Sep 2020
Place in performance rating 144 1698
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1282 MHz 1100 MHz
Core clock speed 817 MHz 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 10 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 153.8 GFLOPS (1:64) 422.4 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.846 TFLOPS (1:1) 3.379 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 9.846 TFLOPS 1.690 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 768
Pixel fill rate 61.54 GPixel/s 26.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 153.8 GTexel/s 105.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million
Compute units 96

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs
DisplayPort support
G-SYNC support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x1
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None
Width IGP

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready