Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 LP

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 LP 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).

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 LP

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

Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 LP

2.6x more core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 19% higher boost clock speed: 1188 MHz vs 1000 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 57.02 GTexel / s vs 24.00 GB/s
2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384

Core clock speed	1024 MHz vs 400 MHz
Boost clock speed	1188 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	57.02 GTexel / s vs 24.00 GB/s
Pipelines	768 vs 384

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 LP

Name	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 LP
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3366
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3366

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 LP
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 11.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Ice Lake GT2	GM206
Launch price (MSRP)	$969	$159
Place in performance rating	1198	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch date		1 March 2016
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1188 MHz
Compute units	48
Core clock speed	400 MHz	1024 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	768
Texture fill rate	24.00 GB/s	57.02 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	75 Watt
Floating-point performance		1,825 gflops
Transistor count		2,940 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		202 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.1
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		105.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		6612 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
CUDA