Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) vs GeForce GTX 1060
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Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
Tiger Lake GT2
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
GP106
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) with 80 pipelines and 640 shaders against the 4 years and 1 month older GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB that utilizes 10 pipelines and 1280 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 10 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1060
- Performs significantly better (up to 4.8x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 4.5x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 27 vs 6 FPS
- 2.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.4 vs 1.9 TFLOPS)
- Includes 6 GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory
- Achieves 2.8x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (39K vs 14K)
- Has 2x more shading units (1280 vs 640)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 21 10 - - |
68 37 29 16 |
| The Witcher 3 | 12 9 - - |
54 40 26 13 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 16 11 9 - |
96 63 42 18 |
| Far Cry 6 | 13 10 - - |
50 45 33 15 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | - - - - |
32 22 18 9 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 12 12 10 - |
38 32 22 13 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 9 - - - |
29 20 16 9 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | - | 30 26 19 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12 12 - - |
57 49 34 18 |
| 1080p High | 12 | 50 |
| 1080p Ultra | 9 | 37 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 27 |
| 4K Ultra | - | 13 |
| Margin of Error | Medium | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1230 | 4203 |
| Solar Bay | - | 11278 |
| Port Royal | - | 844 |
| Fire Strike | 4196 | 13132 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 2124 | 8510 |
| Night Raid | 15167 | 54686 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 31 img/sec | 100.2 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 23.3 img/sec | 48.1 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.61 Gpixels/sec | 1.54 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 0.87 Gpixels/sec | 2.25 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.36 Gpixels/sec | 2.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.15 Gpixels/sec | 0.25 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 36.1 Gpixels/sec | 136.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 2493.2 FPS | 4220.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 392 | 737 |
| DirectX 11 | 16 FPS | 72 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 12 FPS | 37 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 1158 Ops/s | 4246 Ops/s |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 1149 | 1462 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 1796 | 3872 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 1394 | 8136 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 2775 | 6356 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 5476 | 33181 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 981 | 1806 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 905 | 3149 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1277 | 2096 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 3737 | 10515 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 22348 | 67831 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU) and GeForce GTX 1060General
| Vendor | Intel | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | August 15, 2020 | July 19, 2016 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $299 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Generation 12.1 | Pascal |
| GPU Codename | Tiger Lake GT2 | GP106 |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 1130G7 or above | - Intel Core i7 7700 or above |
| Used in CPUs | - Intel Core 5 220U - Intel Core 5 220H - Intel Core i5 1334U - Intel Core 5 120U - Intel Core i5 1335U - Intel Core i5 1345U - Intel Core i5 1340P - Intel Core i5 13500H - and 14 more |
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Laptop GPU ranking (#134th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#84th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 300 MHz | 1506 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 850-1500 MHz (configurable) | 1709 MHz |
| Shading Units | 640 | 1280 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 40 | 80 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 20 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 80 | 10 |
| Tensor Cores | No | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No | No |
| L1 Cache | - | 48KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 1024KB shared | 1536KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 17-30 GPixel/s | 82 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 34-60 GTexel/s | 137 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | Ring Bus | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 15 W | 120 W |
| Manufacturing | Intel | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 10 nm | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 146 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Transistor Count | - | 4 billion |
| Transistor Density | - | 20 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR5 |
| Memory Size | System RAM Dependent | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | System RAM Dependent | 2002 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | System RAM Dependent | 8000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 6.1 |
| Ray Tracing | No | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | - | 1.4a |
Further details
Notes on GTX 1060:
- There is also 3GB memory version, which is about 10% slower.
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