Iris Graphics 540 and HD Graphics 500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Iris Graphics 540 vs HD Graphics 500
Iris Graphics 540
1296
HD Graphics 500
307
Iris Graphics 540
HD Graphics 500
Architecture
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
Gen. 9 Apollo Lake (2016−2017)
GPU code name
Skylake GT3e
Apollo Lake
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2015
September 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x1
PCIe 3.0 x1
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
700 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
144.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
189 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
12
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
50.40
9.000
Memory type
eDRAM
DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
eDRAM + 64/128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
System Shared
Shared memory
+
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.1
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.97
1.1.97
Quick Sync
+
+