Intel Iris Plus 655 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare Intel Iris Plus 655 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 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

278 points

11% slightly better overall score

250 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

Identical

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

6 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

9 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7413 points

16214 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8124 points

19779 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7380 points

13742 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8354 points

12796 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

850 MHz

183% significantly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

1399% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

388th of 586

399th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Iris Plus 655 vs Radeon HD 8950 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon HD 8950 beats the Iris Plus 655 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon HD 8950 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 Plus 655 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8950 at 225 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 Radeon HD 8950 over the Iris Plus 655.