Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940A

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4 and NVIDIA GeForce 940A 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: 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 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 2936.6x more texture fill rate: 52.80 GTexel/s vs 17.98 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
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2690 vs 1107
  • Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 351 vs 214
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3708 vs 3615
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3708 vs 3615
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2 Sep 2020 vs 13 March 2015
Texture fill rate 52.80 GTexel/s vs 17.98 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2690 vs 1107
PassMark - G2D Mark 351 vs 214
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3708 vs 3615
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3708 vs 3615

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 940A

  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1029 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 1124 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 vs 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 vs 3356

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 940A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2690
1107
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
351
214
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3708
3615
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3708
3615
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3361
Name Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4 NVIDIA GeForce 940A
PassMark - G3D Mark 2690 1107
PassMark - G2D Mark 351 214
Geekbench - OpenCL 12193
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 79.859
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1138.276
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.596
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 61.742
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 193.829
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3708 3615
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3708 3615
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 3361

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4 NVIDIA GeForce 940A

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.0 Maxwell
Code name Tiger Lake GT1 GM108
Launch date 2 Sep 2020 13 March 2015
Place in performance rating 617 729
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz 1124 MHz
Compute units 48
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1029 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 211.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 1.690 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 844.8 GFLOPS
Pipelines 384 384
Pixel fill rate 13.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 52.80 GTexel/s 17.98 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 33 Watt
Floating-point performance 863.2 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 3.0 x8
Width IGP

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 16.02 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2002 MHz
Memory type DDR3