Intel Iris Graphics 6100 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Graphics 6100 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Intel Iris Graphics 6100

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Graphics 6100

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 28% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 235 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
99.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 898 vs 9
Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 314 vs 166

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2015 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	898 vs 9
PassMark - G2D Mark	314 vs 166

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Graphics 6100
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

898

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

314

166

Name	Intel Iris Graphics 6100	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	898	9
PassMark - G2D Mark	314	166
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1404
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1404
Geekbench - OpenCL	3028
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1139
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1139
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3331
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3331

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Graphics 6100	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 8.0	Rankine
Code name	Broadwell GT3	NV31 A1
Launch date	5 January 2015	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1074	1032
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	48
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	189 million	80 million
Texture fill rate		940 MTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x1	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	128 Bit
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory clock speed		400 MHz
Memory type		DDR
Technologies
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