Intel Iris Graphics 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Graphics 550 and NVIDIA GeForce 800A 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Graphics 550

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1427 vs 477
  • Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 305 vs 165
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 September 2015 vs 17 March 2014
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1427 vs 477
PassMark - G2D Mark 305 vs 165

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 800A

  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 300 MHz
Core clock speed 738 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Graphics 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 800A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1427
477
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
305
165
Name Intel Iris Graphics 550 NVIDIA GeForce 800A
PassMark - G3D Mark 1427 477
PassMark - G2D Mark 305 165
Geekbench - OpenCL 7012
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2675
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1290
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1290
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3157
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3157

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Graphics 550 NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Essentials

Architecture Generation 9.0 Fermi 2.0
Code name Skylake GT3e GF119
Launch date 1 September 2015 17 March 2014
Place in performance rating 958 959
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 738 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 48 48
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 189 million 292 million
Floating-point performance 141.7 gflops
Texture fill rate 5.904 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Memory type eDRAM DDR3
Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz

Technologies

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