ATI Radeon 3000 IGP vs Iris Graphics 550

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking707not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency17.19no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameSkylake GT3eRS780
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores38440
Core clock speed300 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million180 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm+65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate48.001.400
Floating-point processing power0.768 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64
TMUs484

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentMotherboard Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model6.44.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL3.01.0
Vulkan1.3N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 65 nm

Iris Graphics 550 has a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Graphics 550 and Radeon 3000 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Graphics 550 is a notebook card while Radeon 3000 IGP is a desktop one.


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Intel Iris Graphics 550
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