Intel Iris Graphics 6100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Graphics 6100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Graphics 6100

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • 10x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 150 Watt
Launch date 5 January 2015 vs 11 October 2010
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 7x more pipelines: 336 vs 48
  • 3.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3712 vs 1139
  • 3.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3712 vs 1139
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 3331
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 3331
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines 336 vs 48
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712 vs 1139
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712 vs 1139
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 3331
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 3331

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Graphics 6100
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1139
3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1139
3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3331
3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3331
3353
Name Intel Iris Graphics 6100 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 905
PassMark - G2D Mark 314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1404
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1404
Geekbench - OpenCL 3024
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1139 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1139 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3331 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3331 3353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 22.202
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 661.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 76.736

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Graphics 6100 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Generation 8.0 Fermi
Code name Broadwell GT3 GF104
Launch date 5 January 2015 11 October 2010
Place in performance rating 1087 1090
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 48 336
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 189 million 1,950 million
Floating-point performance 873.6 gflops
Texture fill rate 36.4 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x1 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Length 210 mm

API support

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

Memory

Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit 256 Bit
Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 108.8 GB / s
Memory clock speed 3400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5

Technologies

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