GeForce GTX 960 and Iris Graphics 550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Iris Graphics 550
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Iris Graphics 550
1474
GeForce GTX 960
Iris Graphics 550
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code name
GM206
Skylake GT3e
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
September 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x1
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
1100 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
48
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
52.80
Memory type
GDDR5
eDRAM
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
eDRAM + 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
+
1.1.97
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Quick Sync
-
+