Iris Graphics 6100: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Iris Graphics 6100 is Intel's Broadwell-generation premium integrated GPU from 2015 — the mid-tier Iris step in the 14nm generation that preceded Skylake. This guide covers its 36 benchmarked games at 1080p on high and the one catalog listing name-matched to it.

Where the Iris Graphics 6100 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 6.9 ranks the Iris 6100 at 261st of 341. Its neighbors tell the story of a chip outlived by its own brand: the Iris Pro Graphics 5200 (7.7) and GeForce MX110 (7.4) above, the UHD Graphics 620 (6.8) and Quadro M500M (6.8) immediately below, and the UHD Graphics P630 (6.6) behind. Sitting level with plain UHD Graphics of later years is the honest verdict — the Iris premium of 2015 became the baseline within two product generations.

What the chip brings

This is Generation 8.0 graphics on Intel's first 14nm process, running within a 15W processor envelope and sharing system memory. Broadwell's Iris tier carried more execution units and eDRAM cache on certain SKUs, which is what separated it from the ordinary HD 6000 graphics in the same chips. The public benchmarks place it precisely: PassMark 896, Fire Strike 874 and Time Spy 377 — a step above its era's baseline iGPU, a step below anything discrete.

FPS in games at 1080p

On the high preset, the 6100's practical ceiling is light and older titles: Team Fortress 2 and Valorant both at 40 fps, The Sims 4 at 25, F1 2014 at 24, and a cluster at 21 — DOTA 2, Farming Simulator 17, GRID: Autosport and World of Warships. Below that the graph falls away: Fortnite at 10, Forza Horizon 4 at 10, Counter-Strike 2 at 5, The Witcher 3 at 8, Cyberpunk 2077 at 4, and the Resident Evil 4 remake at 2 fps. The single medium-preset datapoint in the record doesn't change the picture.

Laptops that carry it

The one name-matched listing is Dell's Precision M6800, a 2014 17-inch mobile workstation at $352 — and that pairing deserves a caveat. The M6800's actual configuration options centered on professional FirePro cards, so the catalog's roster medians for it (a best-GPU score of 14.6, gaming index 30) reflect those stronger options rather than this chip. The genuine Iris 6100 machines were Broadwell ultrabooks and all-in-ones that have mostly left the secondhand market; treat this record primarily as the benchmark reference for the silicon.

Bottom line

The Iris Graphics 6100 is a waystation in Intel's integrated-graphics arc — better than the baseline of its year, overtaken by the baseline of the next one. In 2026 it's a benchmark record more than a shopping consideration: if you encounter it, it's inside a decade-old machine priced for its chassis, not its graphics. Expect desktop work and vintage gaming, nothing newer.