GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB vs Iris Plus Graphics 655

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking663not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.52no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.5 (2016−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameCoffee Lake GT3eGP107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 April 2018 (6 years ago)1 February 2019 (5 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 cores384768
Core clock speed300 MHz1366 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz1442 MHz
Number of transistors189 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm+++14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate50.4069.22
Floating-point processing power0.8064 TFLOPS2.215 TFLOPS
ROPs624
TMUs4848

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 3.0 x16

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 SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared3 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1752 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data84.1 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 DependentNo outputs

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)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan1.31.2
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 April 2018 1 February 2019
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 75 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics 655 has 400% lower power consumption.

GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months.

We couldn't decide between Iris Plus Graphics 655 and GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
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