Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 and NVIDIA GeForce 940M 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 940M

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940

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)
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 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366 vs 3357

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 940M

2.7x more core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 24.00 GB/s

Core clock speed	1072 MHz vs 400 MHz
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s vs 24.00 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

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

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3366

3357

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3366

3357

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	NVIDIA GeForce 940M
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366	3357
PassMark - G3D Mark		1125
PassMark - G2D Mark		154
Geekbench - OpenCL		5902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		25.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		168.449
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		21.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		101.399
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2132
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3065
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2132
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3065
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		506

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	NVIDIA GeForce 940M
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	1176 MHz
Compute units	48
Core clock speed	400 MHz	1072 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	28.22 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	33 Watt
Floating-point performance		903.2 gflops
Transistor count		1,870 million
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
Laptop size		medium sized
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