Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO 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

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
40.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1739 vs 43
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 363 vs 163

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 September 2017 vs 1 June 2004
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1739 vs 43
PassMark - G2D Mark	363 vs 163

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 333 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	333 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1739

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

363

163

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	1739	43
PassMark - G2D Mark	363	163
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	ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 9.5	Rage 8
Code name	Coffee Lake GT3e	M10
Launch date	1 September 2017	1 June 2004
Place in performance rating	1042	1040
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	333 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	48
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	189 million	76 million
Texture fill rate		1.332 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	9.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Memory type	DDR3 / DDR4	DDR
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		400 MHz