Intel Iris 550 vs AMD Radeon R7 450

Compare Intel Iris 550 vs AMD Radeon R7 450 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

287 points

297 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

8 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

6 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6574 points

10702 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7277 points

9779 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6869 points

10058 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6580 points

8478 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1050 MHz

250% significantly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6 Gigapixels/s

14.8 Gigapixels/s

146% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

48 Gigatexels/s

62% significantly higher texture rate

29.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

512

33% slightly more shading units

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

382nd of 586

381st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.3

Iris 550 vs Radeon R7 450 comparison

For gaming, the Iris 550 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 450 in our tests.

The Radeon R7 450 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 Iris 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R7 450 at 65 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 550 over the Radeon R7 450.