Intel Iris 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare Intel Iris 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points
232 points
8% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

6 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
Identical
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6252 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6697 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3564 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6277 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3852 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6234 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3955 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W
120% significantly lower TDP
33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6 Gigapixels/s
7.84 Gigapixels/s
30% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

48 Gigatexels/s
53% significantly higher texture rate
31.36 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
49% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

6
8
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

426th of 586
409th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Iris 540 vs GeForce GT 740M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 740M GPU is faster than the Iris 540 in gaming.

In addition, the Iris 540 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740M at 33 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GT 740M is better than the Iris 540.

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