Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 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 Quadro FX 4600

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
8.9x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 134 Watt
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1739 vs 431
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 363 vs 127
Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3343 vs 3230
Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3343 vs 3230

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 September 2017 vs 5 March 2007
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 134 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1739 vs 431
PassMark - G2D Mark	363 vs 127
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3343 vs 3230
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3343 vs 3230

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

Around 67% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 300 MHz
2x more pipelines: 96 vs 48

Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 48

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1739

431

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

363

127

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3343

3230

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3343

3230

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
PassMark - G3D Mark	1739	431
PassMark - G2D Mark	363	127
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	3230
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2780
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1884
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3343	3230
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	619

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 9.5	Tesla
Code name	Coffee Lake GT3e	G80
Launch date	1 September 2017	5 March 2007
Place in performance rating	1044	1214
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,999
Price now		$143.51
Value for money (0-100)		5.45
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	48	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	134 Watt
Transistor count	189 million	681 million
Floating-point performance		230.4 gflops
Texture fill rate		12 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Memory type	DDR3 / DDR4	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		768 MB
Memory bandwidth		67.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory clock speed		1400 MHz