Intel Iris Plus 655 vs AMD Radeon R7 250

Compare Intel Iris Plus 655 vs AMD Radeon R7 250 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

278 points

352 points

26% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

9 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

5 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

7 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

Identical

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7413 points

10280 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8124 points

8744 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7380 points

9476 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8354 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8020 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1000 MHz

233% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

Identical

1050 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

400% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.3 Gigapixels/s

14.8 Gigapixels/s

134% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

50.4 Gigatexels/s

70% 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

389th of 586

360th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Iris Plus 655 vs Radeon R7 250 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R7 250 GPU is faster than the Iris Plus 655 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 250 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 R7 250 at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 250 over the Iris Plus 655.