Benchmarks for the Intel Rocket Lake’s Iris Xe GPU have leaked out online. The Intel Rocket Lake CPUs are scheduled to launch in March and now, new benchmarks of the Intel Rocket Lake Iris Xe GPU have leaked out over at the Chinese tech forum Bilibili for 3DMark Time Spy.
The Iris Xe GPU was tested on an Intel Core i5-11500 CPU which is a 6 core and 12 thread CPU having a base clock of 2.70 GHz. The test bench on which the CPU was tested had an MSI Z590-A PRO motherboard with 32 GB of DDR4-3200 MHz memory.
In the leaked benchmark, the new Intel Xe Iris graphics are on par with NVIDIA’s GT 1030 GPU but slower than AMD’s Renoir APUs. The Intel Rocket Lake Iris Xe GPU will have 32 Execution units or 256 cores. The driver it is tested on is from early January 2021 and GPU-z cannot pick up the exact specifications or clocks for it yet.
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The Iris Xe GPU was tested in several eSports titles and also 3DMark Time Spy. In Time Spy, the 11th Gen Chip scored 1053 points within the graphics test which is a 52% increase over the UHD 630 graphics chip featured in the Comet Lake Core i5-10400.
This number put Intel’s upcoming Iris Xe GPU on par with NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 1030 which scores around 1100-1200 points but, it is much slower than AMD’s Renoir APUs featuring Vega GPUs. The AMD Ryzen 7 4750G for comparison scores around 1600 points in the same benchmark.
We should keep in mind that these benchmarks were performed on an engineering sample CPU and most probably unreleased drivers. It is likely that future launch drivers for Intel’s Rocket Lake Iris Xe GPUs would help boost overall performance and push the score around 1100-1200 points.
We will have to wait and see how the performance of Iris GPU translates to real-life performance and whether it can beat AMD’s Renoir GPU or not.
