Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS 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 8 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
  • 4x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 60 Watt
  • 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1742 vs 555
  • 6.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 363 vs 57
  • Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3343 vs 2414
  • Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3343 vs 2414
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 September 2017 vs 1 November 2008
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 60 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1742 vs 555
PassMark - G2D Mark 363 vs 57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3343 vs 2414
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3343 vs 2414

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

  • Around 77% higher core clock speed: 530 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 64 vs 48
Core clock speed 530 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines 64 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1742
555
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
363
57
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3343
2414
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3343
2414
Name Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 1742 555
PassMark - G2D Mark 363 57
Geekbench - OpenCL 7379
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 2414
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2780
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1884
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3343 2414
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 619

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Essentials

Architecture Generation 9.5 Tesla
Code name Coffee Lake GT3e G94
Launch date 1 September 2017 1 November 2008
Place in performance rating 1042 1460
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 48 64
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 60 Watt
Transistor count 189 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64
Floating-point performance 169.6 gflops
Gigaflops 254
Texture fill rate 16 billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Memory type DDR3 / DDR4 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
Power management 8.0