Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 and NVIDIA GeForce 305M 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, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 3x more pipelines: 48 vs 16
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • 11.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1743 vs 151
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 363 vs 149
  • 3.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7378 vs 1987
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 September 2017 vs 10 January 2010
Pipelines 48 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1743 vs 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 363 vs 149
Geekbench - OpenCL 7378 vs 1987

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

  • 3.8x more core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 15 Watt
Core clock speed 1150 MHz vs 300 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 15 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 305M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1743
151
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
363
149
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
7378
1987
Name Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 NVIDIA GeForce 305M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1743 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 363 149
Geekbench - OpenCL 7378 1987
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 NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Essentials

Architecture Generation 9.5 Tesla 2.0
Code name Coffee Lake GT3e GT218
Launch date 1 September 2017 10 January 2010
Place in performance rating 1042 1331
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1150 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 48 16
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 189 million 260 million
CUDA cores 16
Floating-point performance 36.8 gflops
Gigaflops 55
Texture fill rate 4.2 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support PCI-E 2.0

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Memory type DDR3 / DDR4 GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Memory bandwidth 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0