Intel UHD Graphics 617 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Comparative analysis of Intel UHD Graphics 617 and NVIDIA GeForce 940M 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 UHD Graphics 617

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 893x more texture fill rate: 25.20 GTexel/s vs 28.22 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
  • Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 231 vs 155
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 November 2018 vs 13 March 2015
Texture fill rate 25.20 GTexel/s vs 28.22 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 231 vs 155

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 940M

  • 3.6x more core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 12% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • 16x more pipelines: 384 vs 24
  • Around 80% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5926 vs 3290
  • Around 62% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2132 vs 1313
  • Around 62% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2132 vs 1313
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3065 vs 1461
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3065 vs 1461
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 1633
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 1633
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1125 vs 870
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1072 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 1176 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Pipelines 384 vs 24
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 5926 vs 3290
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2132 vs 1313
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2132 vs 1313
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3065 vs 1461
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3065 vs 1461
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 vs 1633
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 vs 1633
PassMark - G3D Mark 1125 vs 870

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel UHD Graphics 617
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
3290
5926
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1313
2132
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1313
2132
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1461
3065
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1461
3065
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1633
3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1633
3357
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
231
155
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
870
1125
Name Intel UHD Graphics 617 NVIDIA GeForce 940M
Geekbench - OpenCL 3290 5926
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1313 2132
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1313 2132
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1461 3065
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1461 3065
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1633 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1633 3357
PassMark - G2D Mark 231 155
PassMark - G3D Mark 870 1125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 25.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 168.449
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 101.399
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 506

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel UHD Graphics 617 NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Essentials

Architecture Generation 9.5 Maxwell
Code name Amber Lake GT2 GM108
Launch date 7 November 2018 13 March 2015
Place in performance rating 1225 1228
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1050 MHz 1176 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1072 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 100.8 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 806.4 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 403.2 GFLOPS
Pipelines 24 384
Pixel fill rate 3.150 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 25.20 GTexel/s 28.22 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 33 Watt
Floating-point performance 903.2 gflops
Transistor count 1,870 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory type DDR3L / LPDDR3 DDR3
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus