Intel Iris 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 820M

Compare Intel Iris 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 820M, 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

287 points
208% significantly better overall score
93 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6574 points
180% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2347 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6869 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2798 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W
200% significantly lower TDP
45 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6 Gigapixels/s
6.48 Gigapixels/s
8% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

48 Gigatexels/s
85% significantly higher texture rate
25.92 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
49% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

6
16
166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

384th of 586
506th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Iris 550 vs GeForce 820M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Iris 550 beats the GeForce 820M in gaming performance.

In addition, the Iris 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce 820M at 45 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Iris 550 is better than the GeForce 820M.

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