Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 vs AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 and AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 35 Watt
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 64 GB vs 4 GB
  • 5.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1978 vs 336
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 362 vs 164
  • 11.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8724 vs 782
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 September 2015 vs 21 December 2013
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 35 Watt
Maximum memory size 64 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1978 vs 336
PassMark - G2D Mark 362 vs 164
Geekbench - OpenCL 8724 vs 782

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

  • 2.6x more core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 2.2x more pipelines: 160 vs 72
Core clock speed 775 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines 160 vs 72

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1978
336
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
362
164
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
8724
782
Name Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 1978 336
PassMark - G2D Mark 362 164
Geekbench - OpenCL 8724 782
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 49.11
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 450.087
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.059
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.346
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 67.077
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2846
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1668
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2846
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1668
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Generation 9.0 TeraScale 2
Code name Skylake GT4e Caicos
Launch date 1 September 2015 21 December 2013
Place in performance rating 992 1278
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R5 200 Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 775 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 72 160
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 189 million 370 million
Floating-point performance 248.0 gflops
Texture fill rate 6.2 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 64 GB 4 GB
Memory type DDR3L / LPDDR3 / DDR4 DDR3
Shared memory 1
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz

Technologies

Quick Sync
AMD Eyefinity