Intel Iris 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare Intel Iris 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

287 points

1261 points

339% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

28 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

17 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

19 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

14 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the Iris 550 and the GeForce GTX 680? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

5855 points

8002 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6574 points

16368 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7277 points

16340 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7413 points

7720 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6869 points

18409 points

168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6580 points

18023 points

173% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1006 MHz

235% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1058 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

1200% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

464% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

48 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

182% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

1536

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

433% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

384th of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

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 550 vs GeForce GTX 680 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 680 beats the Iris 550 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 680 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 680 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Iris 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 680 over the Iris 550.