Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX and AMD Radeon HD 7550M 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 3x more boost clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 6600x more texture fill rate: 79.20 GTexel/s vs 12 GTexel / s
  • Around 92% higher pipelines: 768 vs 400
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) vs 1800 MHz
  • 2.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 14127 vs 5371
  • 4.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1972 vs 465
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 31 Oct 2020 vs 7 January 2012
Boost clock speed 1650 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 79.20 GTexel/s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 400
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 14127 vs 5371
PassMark - G3D Mark 1972 vs 465

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M

  • Around 50% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 25 Watt
  • Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 vs 311
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 450 MHz vs 300 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 25 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 403 vs 311

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
14127
5371
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
311
403
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1972
465
Name Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX AMD Radeon HD 7550M
Geekbench - OpenCL 14127 5371
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6889
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6889
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3214
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3214
PassMark - G2D Mark 311 403
PassMark - G3D Mark 1972 465

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.1 TeraScale 2
Code name DG1 Thames
Launch date 31 Oct 2020 7 January 2012
Place in performance rating 529 558
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1650 MHz 550 MHz
Compute units 96
Core clock speed 300 MHz 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 633.6 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5.069 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 2.534 TFLOPS
Pipelines 768 400
Pixel fill rate 39.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 79.20 GTexel/s 12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 14 Watt
Floating-point performance 480.0 gflops
Transistor count 716 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 2.0 x16
Width IGP
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.1 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 68.26 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) 1800 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory 0