NVIDIA GRID M3-3020 vs Intel Iris Graphics 550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID M3-3020 and Intel Iris Graphics 550 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M3-3020

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 1033 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1306 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • 13.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 48
Launch date 18 May 2016 vs 1 September 2015
Core clock speed 1033 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 1306 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Pipelines 640 vs 48

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Graphics 550

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID M3-3020
GPU 2: Intel Iris Graphics 550

Name NVIDIA GRID M3-3020 Intel Iris Graphics 550
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 41.997
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 726.846
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.442
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 155.196
PassMark - G3D Mark 1430
PassMark - G2D Mark 305
Geekbench - OpenCL 7182
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2675
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1290
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1290
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3157
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3157

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GRID M3-3020 Intel Iris Graphics 550

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Generation 9.0
Code name GM107 Skylake GT3e
Launch date 18 May 2016 1 September 2015
Place in performance rating 1250 951
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1306 MHz 1100 MHz
Core clock speed 1033 MHz 300 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,672 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 640 48
Texture fill rate 52.24 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,870 million 189 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x1
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 83.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 eDRAM
Shared memory 1

Technologies

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