Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook) 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 GTX 1050 (Notebook)

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 16 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt

Specifications (specs)
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366 vs 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366 vs 3359

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

3.4x more core clock speed: 1354 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 49% higher boost clock speed: 1493 MHz vs 1000 MHz
2.5x more texture fill rate: 59.72 GTexel / s vs 24.00 GB/s
Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384

Core clock speed	1354 MHz vs 400 MHz
Boost clock speed	1493 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	59.72 GTexel / s vs 24.00 GB/s
Pipelines	640 vs 384

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3366

3359

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3366

3359

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366	3359
PassMark - G3D Mark		4463
PassMark - G2D Mark		292
Geekbench - OpenCL		17466
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		67.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		799.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		30.523
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		223.683
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7239
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3721
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2084

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Notebook)
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 11.0	Pascal
Code name	Ice Lake GT2	GP106B
Launch price (MSRP)	$969
Place in performance rating	1198	595
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Launch date		1 February 2017
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1493 MHz
Compute units	48
Core clock speed	400 MHz	1354 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	211 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1690 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	845 GFLOPS
Pipelines	384	640
Texture fill rate	24.00 GB/s	59.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	75 Watt
Floating-point performance		1,911 gflops
Transistor count		4,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
G-SYNC support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		112.1 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		7008 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection