Iris 550 benches?

Wow tamag901! Are you from the future?

The information in this chart may explain why the benchmark data is hard to find. According to Wikipedia, this particular chipset has not been released yet. As far as I can tell, each Iris 550 offering has a TBD (to be determined) listed in the Release Date column.



This chart is interesting. Quad Core Mac mini fans may want to focus their hopes on the HD 530 since that GPU is often paired with the QC CPU. I wonder if that is a heat thing? In this table, there are no Iris GPUs paired with QC CPUs.

Another interesting fact is that the only QC + Hyper-threading CPUs are clustered at the top of the chart and very rare.

These 2012 QC Hyper-Threading minis look more special every day!

 

Looking at the chart makes me feel more sadly confident that we will not see 2016 quad core Minis due to the 45W TDP since these will be reserved for 21" iMacs.

Apple will not create a Mini that directly compete with their flagship desktop except in the case of the base Mini and base iMac.

I think as you do that the HD 530 will be the IGPU of the next Mini.

Unfortunately the days of a quad core Mini are past. Whether Apple offers a 28W Iris Pro 550 dual core maybe an option that would provide a nice alternative for added video capabilities.

 

Something doesn't add up. The next Mac mini can't have the HD 530 because it is not as powerful as the current base HD 5000 (24 vs. 40 execution units). My guess would be for the Iris Pro 550, even if it's dual-core only.

Apple seems to prefer better integrated graphics over better CPUs.