Intel Iris Plus 650 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Compare Intel Iris Plus 650 0 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230, 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

334 points

343 points

2% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

Identical

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7106 points

7146 points

0.56% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7880 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7117 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7087 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6822 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8012 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6359 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1519 MHz

406% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1150 MHz

1531 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

10 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.9 Gigapixels/s

24.5 Gigapixels/s

255% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

55.2 Gigatexels/s

125% significantly higher texture rate

24.5 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

49% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

200% 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

364th of 586

361st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 January

2019 February

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

4.4

4.6

Iris Plus 650 vs GeForce MX230 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce MX230 GPU is faster than the Iris Plus 650 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce MX230 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 MX230 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX230 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the Iris Plus 650 at 15 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 MX230 over the Iris Plus 650.