NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 4.6x more core clock speed: 924 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • 8x more texture fill rate: 83.04 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
  • 32x more pipelines: 1280 vs 40
  • 25.5x better floating-point performance: 2,657 gflops vs 104.0 gflops
  • 4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5733 vs 1191
  • 3.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18330 vs 5072
  • 4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 8546 vs 2095
  • Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 3285
  • 4.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 8546 vs 2095
  • Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 3285
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 October 2014 vs 27 May 2013
Core clock speed 924 MHz vs 200 MHz
Texture fill rate 83.04 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 40
Floating-point performance 2,657 gflops vs 104.0 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5733 vs 1191
Geekbench - OpenCL 18330 vs 5072
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8546 vs 2095
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699 vs 3285
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8546 vs 2095
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699 vs 3285

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200

  • Around 25% higher boost clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 1038 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 81 Watt
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 399 vs 392
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1300 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 81 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 399 vs 392

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU 2: Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5733
1191
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
392
399
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
18330
5072
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8546
2095
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3699
3285
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8546
2095
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3699
3285
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200
PassMark - G3D Mark 5733 1191
PassMark - G2D Mark 392 399
Geekbench - OpenCL 18330 5072
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 59.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1113.788
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.157
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 39.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 81.909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8546 2095
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3699 3285
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8546 2095
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699 3285
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2282

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Generation 7.5
Code name GM204 Haswell GT3e
Launch date 7 October 2014 27 May 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $2,560.89
Place in performance rating 548 642
Price now $1,899
Type Laptop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 3.99

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1038 MHz 1300 MHz
Core clock speed 924 MHz 200 MHz
CUDA cores 1280
Floating-point performance 2,657 gflops 104.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 22 nm
Pipelines 1280 40
Texture fill rate 83.04 GTexel / s 10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 81 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 392 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 120 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 eDRAM
Shared memory 0 1

Technologies

Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Quick Sync