Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 68% higher boost clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 980 MHz
  • 5051x more texture fill rate: 79.20 GTexel/s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 45 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 18% higher memory clock speed: 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) vs 1802 MHz
  • 3.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 14238 vs 3866
  • 4.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6889 vs 1589
  • 4.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6889 vs 1589
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3462 vs 3235
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3462 vs 3235
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 311 vs 149
  • 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1972 vs 793
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 31 Oct 2020 vs 1 April 2013
Boost clock speed 1650 MHz vs 980 MHz
Texture fill rate 79.20 GTexel/s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 45 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) vs 1802 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 14238 vs 3866
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6889 vs 1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6889 vs 1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3462 vs 3235
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3462 vs 3235
PassMark - G2D Mark 311 vs 149
PassMark - G3D Mark 1972 vs 793

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

  • 2.7x more core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3339 vs 3214
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3339 vs 3214
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3339 vs 3214
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3339 vs 3214

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
14238
3866
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6889
1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6889
1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3462
3235
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3462
3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3214
3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3214
3339
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
311
149
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1972
793
Name Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
Geekbench - OpenCL 14238 3866
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6889 1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6889 1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3462 3235
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3462 3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3214 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3214 3339
PassMark - G2D Mark 311 149
PassMark - G3D Mark 1972 793
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 9.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 157.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 16.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 44.77
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 345

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics MAX NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Essentials

Architecture Generation 12.1 Kepler
Code name DG1 GK107
Launch date 31 Oct 2020 1 April 2013
Place in performance rating 523 1301
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1650 MHz 980 MHz
Compute units 96
Core clock speed 300 MHz 810 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 633.6 GFLOPS (1:4)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5.069 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 2.534 TFLOPS
Pipelines 768 384
Pixel fill rate 39.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 79.20 GTexel/s 15.68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 45 Watt
Floating-point performance 752.6 gflops
Transistor count 1,270 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Width IGP
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.1 12 API
OpenCL 2.1 1.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 68.26 GB/s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2133 MHz (4.3 Gbps effective) 1802 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X DDR3
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration DDR3 / GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus