Intel HD 500 vs Intel Iris Plus 640

Compare Intel HD 500 vs Intel Iris Plus 640 0 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

46 points

287 points

523% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

1 FPS

9 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

4 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS

7 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1070 points

6601 points

516% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1362 points

6827 points

401% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

913 points

6639 points

627% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1240 points

6920 points

458% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

200 MHz

300 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

650 MHz

1100 MHz

69% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

6 W

150% significantly lower TDP

15 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

1.3 Gigapixels/s

6.6 Gigapixels/s

407% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

7.8 Gigatexels/s

52.8 Gigatexels/s

576% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

547th of 586

386th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 September

2017 January

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

HD 500 vs Iris Plus 640 specs and performance

For gaming, the Iris Plus 640 graphics card is better than the HD 500 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Iris Plus 640 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Iris Plus 640 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the HD 500 has a significantly lower TDP at 6 W when compared to the Iris Plus 640 at 15 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Iris Plus 640 over the HD 500.