Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP 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 9 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • 256x more maximum memory size: 64 GB vs 256 MB
  • 11.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1978 vs 177
  • Around 82% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 362 vs 199
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 September 2015 vs 2 February 2006
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size 64 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1978 vs 177
PassMark - G2D Mark 362 vs 199

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

  • Around 25% higher core clock speed: 375 MHz vs 300 MHz
Core clock speed 375 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1978
177
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
362
199
Name Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 1978 177
PassMark - G2D Mark 362 199
Geekbench - OpenCL 8724
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 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Essentials

Architecture Generation 9.0 Curie
Code name Skylake GT4e G71
Launch date 1 September 2015 2 February 2006
Place in performance rating 992 870
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 72
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 189 million 278 million
Texture fill rate 6 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 64 GB 256 MB
Memory type DDR3L / LPDDR3 / DDR4 GDDR3
Shared memory 1
Memory bandwidth 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz

Technologies

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