Intel Iris 550 vs Intel UHD 730

Compare Intel Iris 550 vs Intel UHD 730, 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

325 points

13% 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

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

Identical

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6574 points

6934 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7277 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6861 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6869 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6006 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6580 points

6896 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

Identical

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1300 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6 Gigapixels/s

10.4 Gigapixels/s

73% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

48 Gigatexels/s

207% significantly higher texture rate

15.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

100% significantly more shading units

192

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

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

384th of 586

366th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Iris 550 vs UHD 730 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Iris 550 beats the UHD 730 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that both the Iris 550 and UHD 730 both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the UHD 730 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, both the Iris 550 and the UHD 730 have an identical TDP. 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 UHD 730.