Iris Graphics 550 and HD Graphics 405 - video card comparison
Iris Graphics 550
HD Graphics 405
Architecture
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
Gen. 8 (2015−2016)
GPU code name
Skylake GT3e
Braswell
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2015
April 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x1
PCIe 3.0 x1
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
700 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
320 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
213.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
189 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
16
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
6 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.80
11.20
Memory type
eDRAM
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
System Shared
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 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.3
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.97
1.1.80
Quick Sync
+
-