NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 832 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 24% higher texture fill rate: 98.37 GTexel/s vs 79.20 GTexel/s
2.7x more pipelines: 2048 vs 768
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 10 nm
2.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 41235 vs 14127

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 31 Oct 2020
Core clock speed	832 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s vs 79.20 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2048 vs 768
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 10 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	41235 vs 14127

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 1537 MHz
Around 42% higher memory clock speed: 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Boost clock speed	1650 MHz vs 1537 MHz
Memory clock speed	2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

41235

14127

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX
Geekbench - OpenCL	41235	14127
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6889
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6889
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3214
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3214
PassMark - G2D Mark		311
PassMark - G3D Mark		1972

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Generation 12.1
Code name	GA107S	DG1
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	31 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating	531	520
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz	1650 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	10 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)	633.6 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)	5.069 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS	2.534 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	768
Pixel fill rate	73.78 GPixel/s	39.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s	79.20 GTexel/s
Compute units		96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		25 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x4
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	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	68.26 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	LPDDR4X