Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 vs ATI Radeon X550

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 and ATI Radeon X550 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200

ATI Radeon X550

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
6.5x more texture fill rate: 10.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 110 nm
23.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1191 vs 51
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 399 vs 266

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 May 2013 vs 1 July 2005
Texture fill rate	10.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1191 vs 51
PassMark - G2D Mark	399 vs 266

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X550

2x more core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 200 MHz

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1191

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

399

266

Name	Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200	ATI Radeon X550
PassMark - G3D Mark	1191	51
PassMark - G2D Mark	399	266
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2095
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2095
Geekbench - OpenCL	5081
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3285
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3285

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200	ATI Radeon X550
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 7.5	Rage 9
Code name	Haswell GT3e	RV370
Launch date	27 May 2013	1 July 2005
Place in performance rating	644	632
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	104.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	10.4 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt
Transistor count	392 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0
OpenGL	4.3	2.0
Memory
Memory type	eDRAM	DDR
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		500 MHz
Technologies
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