Iris Graphics 550: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Iris Graphics 550 was Intel's premium integrated GPU of 2015 — the faster tier of Skylake-era graphics reserved for well-specced ultrabooks. This is a benchmark-only page: no laptop listing in the catalog is matched to this specific chip, so what follows is the measured record of its 43 games at 1080p (28 of them also on medium) and where that record stands today.

Where the Iris Graphics 550 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 13.8 ranks the Iris 550 at 238th of 341 — bottom-third territory, as expected for decade-old integrated graphics. Its neighbors form a time capsule: the UHD Graphics record (14.1) and Radeon 530 (13.9) above, the Iris Plus Graphics (12.8), Radeon Vega 8 (12.7) and Iris Plus 640 (12.4) below. Chips of this class were the "good" iGPUs of their day, and they still outperform the very bottom of the integrated stack — but every ordinary integrated GPU shipped in the last several years clears them comfortably.

What the chip brings

This is Intel's Generation 9.0 graphics architecture on the 14nm process, running inside a 15W processor envelope and sharing system memory. The Iris tier meant more execution resources and higher clocks than the plain HD Graphics of the same generation — Intel's first serious attempt to make integrated graphics a selling point rather than a footnote. The public benchmarks frame the era: PassMark 1460, Fire Strike 1648, Time Spy 561.

FPS in games at 1080p

The Iris 550's honest gaming profile is a classic iGPU curve. Light and older titles clear 60: League of Legends at 104 fps on high (113 on medium), Counter-Strike: GO and Overwatch at their capped 240, DOTA 2 at 28. The middle band — Valorant at 50, The Sims 4 at 40, World of Warships at 37, Farming Simulator 17 at 35 — is playable. Everything modern is not: Fortnite at 20, Counter-Strike 2 at 16, Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 12, The Witcher 3 at 8, Cyberpunk 2077 at 7, and the Resident Evil 4 remake at 5 fps.

Bottom line

As a shopping consideration in 2026, the Iris Graphics 550 is purely a historical reference point: it tells you what "premium integrated graphics" meant in 2015 and how far the baseline has moved since. Machines carrying this class of silicon are a decade old and priced accordingly. If one crosses your path, judge it as a light-duty web and office machine — the graphics are adequate for desktop work and vintage gaming, and nothing more.