Iris Graphics 550 and Radeon HD 6950M - video card comparison
Iris Graphics 550
Radeon HD 6950M
Architecture
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Skylake GT3e
Blackcomb Pro
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2015
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x1
MXM-B (3.0)
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
-
Core clock speed
300 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,113.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
189 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
960
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.80
27.84
Memory type
eDRAM
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
eDRAM + 64/128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.97
N/A
Quick Sync
+
-