Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS 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

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
9.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1739 vs 192
5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 363 vs 72

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 September 2017 vs 8 December 2005
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1739 vs 192
PassMark - G2D Mark	363 vs 72

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	350 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1739

192

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

363

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	1739	192
PassMark - G2D Mark	363	72
Geekbench - OpenCL	7346
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 6800 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 9.5	Curie
Code name	Coffee Lake GT3e	NV40 A1
Launch date	1 September 2017	8 December 2005
Place in performance rating	1042	1489
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$249
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	48
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	189 million	222 million
Texture fill rate		5.1 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	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Memory type	DDR3 / DDR4	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz