Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 vs ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 and ATI Radeon X850 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 Radeon X850 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
23.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1731 vs 73
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 361 vs 157

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 September 2017 vs 1 December 2004
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1731 vs 73
PassMark - G2D Mark	361 vs 157

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Around 69% higher core clock speed: 507 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	507 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1731

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

361

157

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655	ATI Radeon X850 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	1731	73
PassMark - G2D Mark	361	157
Geekbench - OpenCL	7339
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 Radeon X850 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 9.5	R400
Code name	Coffee Lake GT3e	R480
Launch date	1 September 2017	1 December 2004
Place in performance rating	1061	1064
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	507 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	48
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	189 million	160 million
Texture fill rate		6.08 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Memory type	DDR3 / DDR4	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		33.3 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1040 MHz