Intel Iris 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare Intel Iris 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 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

213 points

287 points

34% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS

7 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

4 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

6079 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2446 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6252 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6697 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7143 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2400 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6277 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6234 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4783 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1058 MHz

252% significantly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

326% significantly lower TDP

64 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6 Gigapixels/s

8.46 Gigapixels/s

41% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

48 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

428th of 597

391st of 597

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Iris 540 vs GeForce GTX 650 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 650 graphics card is better than the Iris 540 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 650 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 540 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 650 at 64 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 650 is better than the Iris 540.