Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930M

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 and NVIDIA GeForce 930M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940

NVIDIA GeForce 930M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940

Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 941 MHz
Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 24.00 GB/s vs 22.58 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 28 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz vs 941 MHz
Texture fill rate	24.00 GB/s vs 22.58 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366 vs 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366 vs 3356

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 930M

2.3x more core clock speed: 928 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	928 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 930M

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3366

3356

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3366

3356

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	NVIDIA GeForce 930M
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366	3356
PassMark - G3D Mark		1014
PassMark - G2D Mark		150
Geekbench - OpenCL		5144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		22.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		166.907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.225
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		19.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		84.246
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1987
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1987
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3706
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	NVIDIA GeForce 930M
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 11.0	Maxwell
Code name	Ice Lake GT2	GM108
Launch price (MSRP)	$969
Place in performance rating	1224	1227
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Launch date		13 March 2015
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	941 MHz
Compute units	48
Core clock speed	400 MHz	928 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	211 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1690 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	845 GFLOPS
Pipelines	384	384
Texture fill rate	24.00 GB/s	22.58 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	33 Watt
Floating-point performance		722.7 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus