Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 vs AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 and AMD Radeon HD 6450A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

AMD Radeon HD 6450A

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 25 Watt
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1739 vs 260
Around 75% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 363 vs 208

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 September 2017 vs 7 April 2011
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1739 vs 260
PassMark - G2D Mark	363 vs 208

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6450A

2.1x more core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 300 MHz
3.3x more pipelines: 160 vs 48

Core clock speed	625 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines	160 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6450A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1739

260

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

363

208

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655	AMD Radeon HD 6450A
PassMark - G3D Mark	1739	260
PassMark - G2D Mark	363	208
Geekbench - OpenCL	7344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	37.109
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	465.116
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	29.115
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	54.932
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2780
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1884
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2780
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1884
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3343
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	619

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655	AMD Radeon HD 6450A
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 9.5	TeraScale 2
Code name	Coffee Lake GT3e	Caicos
Launch date	1 September 2017	7 April 2011
Place in performance rating	1042	807
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	48	160
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	189 million	370 million
Floating-point performance		200 gflops
Texture fill rate		5 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	MXM-A (3.0)
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Memory type	DDR3 / DDR4	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		8.53 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1066 MHz