Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 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

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 90 nm
3.2x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 96 Watt
4.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1191 vs 242
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 399 vs 394

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 May 2013 vs 20 April 2006
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 96 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1191 vs 242
PassMark - G2D Mark	399 vs 394

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

3.3x more core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 200 MHz
Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 200 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1191

242

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

399

394

Name	Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	1191	242
PassMark - G2D Mark	399	394
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	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 7.5	Curie
Code name	Haswell GT3e	G71
Launch date	27 May 2013	20 April 2006
Place in performance rating	644	398
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,999
Price now		$1,840.60
Value for money (0-100)		0.17
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	104.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	10.4 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	96 Watt
Transistor count	392 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.3	2.1
Memory
Memory type	eDRAM	GDDR3
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1010 MHz
Technologies
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