Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) vs GeForce GTX 1050
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Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
Tiger Lake GT2
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
GP107
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) with 96 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 3 years and 10 months older GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB that utilizes 5 pipelines and 640 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 (96EU)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 10 nm process technology
- 26% higher maximum theoretical performance (2.4 vs 1.9 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1050
- Performs significantly better (up to 2.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Includes 2 GB of dedicated GDDR5 memory
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 21 11 - - |
21 11 10 - |
| The Witcher 3 | 12 11 - - |
15 15 11 - |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 19 12 9 - |
37 21 14 - |
| Far Cry 6 | 14 11 - - |
24 24 12 - |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 9 - - - |
14 12 9 - |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 14 12 10 - |
28 21 16 11 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 11 - - - |
12 - - - |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | - - - - |
11 - - - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 15 13 9 - |
23 17 11 - |
| 1080p High | 14 | 21 |
| 1080p Ultra | 10 | 15 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 11 |
| 4K Ultra | - | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 1282 | 1739 |
| Fire Strike | 4411 | 6772 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 3119 | 3881 |
| Night Raid | 14097 | 27079 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 34.5 img/sec | 52.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 27.4 img/sec | 24.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 0.75 Gpixels/sec | 0.79 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 1.11 Gpixels/sec | 1.16 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 0.39 Gpixels/sec | 1.25 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.18 Gpixels/sec | 0.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 55.6 Gpixels/sec | 65.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 3061.7 FPS | 1832.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | - | 458 |
| DirectX 11 | - | 38 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | - | 21 FPS |
| GPU Compute | - | 2111 Ops/s |
Recent User Tests
Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-25 -> op1 | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 16849 |
| 📘 2026-07-25 -> sevensrays | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 16620 |
| 📘 2026-04-15 -> maheshkondraju | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 15810 |
GeForce GTX 1050
No benchmark results yet
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) | 1428 | 1249 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 2420 | 1833 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 1551 | 3934 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 3685 | 3004 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 6255 | 14474 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 938 | 1249 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 1028 | 1857 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 1581 | 1624 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 4305 | 5567 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 26119 | 24188 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) and GeForce GTX 1050General
| Vendor | Intel | Nvidia |
| Build | Integrated | Discrete |
| Released | August 15, 2020 | October 25, 2016 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $109 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Generic | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level | Entry-level |
| Architecture | Generation 12.1 | Pascal |
| GPU Codename | Tiger Lake GT2 | GP107 |
| Successor | - | - GeForce GTX 1650 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 1160G7 or above | - Intel Core i5 7400 or above |
| Used in CPUs | - Intel Core 7 250H - Intel Core 9 270H - Intel Core 7 150U - Intel Core i7 13705H - Intel Core i9 13905H - Intel Core i7 1355U - Intel Core i7 1365U - Intel Core i7 1360P - and 23 more |
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Laptop GPU ranking (#125th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#92nd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 300 MHz | 1354 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 950-1550 MHz (configurable) | 1455 MHz |
| Shading Units | 768 | 640 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 48 | 40 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 24 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 96 | 5 |
| Tensor Cores | - | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | - | No |
| L1 Cache | - | 48KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 1024KB shared | 1024KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 23-37 GPixel/s | 47 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 46-74 GTexel/s | 58 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | Ring Bus | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 15 W | 75 W |
| Manufacturing | Intel | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 10 nm | 14 nm |
| Die Size | 146 mm² | 132 mm² |
| Transistor Count | - | 3 billion |
| Transistor Density | - | 22.73 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR5 |
| Memory Size | System RAM Dependent | 2 GB |
| Memory Clock | System RAM Dependent | 1752 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | System RAM Dependent | 7000 Mbps |
| Bus | - | 128-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 1050:
- You can also find models with either 3GB or 4GB of memory.
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