Iris Graphics 550 and Radeon HD 8790M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Iris Graphics 550 vs Radeon HD 8790M
Iris Graphics 550
1474
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
Iris Graphics 550
Radeon HD 8790M
Architecture
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Skylake GT3e
Mars XTX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2015
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x1
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
189 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
384
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
52.80
21.60
Memory type
eDRAM
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
eDRAM + 64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
64 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.97
1.2.131
Quick Sync
+
-