Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940

Around 23% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 325 MHz
18.5x more texture fill rate: 24.00 GB/s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 130 nm

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	24.00 GB/s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 130 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366
PassMark - G3D Mark		33
PassMark - G2D Mark		129

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 11.0	Rankine
Code name	Ice Lake GT2	NV35
Launch price (MSRP)	$969
Place in performance rating	1224	1221
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch date		12 May 2003
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Compute units	48
Core clock speed	400 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	130 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	211 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1690 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	845 GFLOPS
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	24.00 GB/s	1.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count		135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.1	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Memory type		DDR