Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 vs AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 and AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM 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 R5 330 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 40% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 855 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1739 vs 521
Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 363 vs 184
Around 43% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7346 vs 5123

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 September 2017 vs 5 May 2015
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz vs 855 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1739 vs 521
PassMark - G2D Mark	363 vs 184
Geekbench - OpenCL	7346 vs 5123

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

2.8x more core clock speed: 830 MHz vs 300 MHz
6.7x more pipelines: 320 vs 48

Core clock speed	830 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1739

521

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

363

184

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

7346

5123

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655	AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	1739	521
PassMark - G2D Mark	363	184
Geekbench - OpenCL	7346	5123
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 R5 330 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 9.5	GCN 1.0
Code name	Coffee Lake GT3e	Hainan
Launch date	1 September 2017	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	1042	1117
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	855 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	830 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	48	320
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	189 million	1,040 million
Floating-point performance		547.2 gflops
Texture fill rate		17.1 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Memory type	DDR3 / DDR4	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz