Iris Plus Graphics 645 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated661
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.46
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 9.5 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameCypressCoffee Lake GT3e
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 March 2010 (14 years ago)7 October 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 no data

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 cores1600384
Core clock speed850 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1050 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm+++
Power consumption (TDP)228 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate68.0050.40
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS0.8064 TFLOPS
ROPs326
TMUs8048

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16Ring Bus
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/sno data
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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

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

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 March 2010 7 October 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 228 Watt 15 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics 645 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 1420% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and Iris Plus Graphics 645. We've got no test results to judge.


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