Intel Iris 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Compare Intel Iris 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX, 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

287 points

306 points

6% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

8 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

Identical

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

5 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6574 points

6582 points

0.12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7277 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5823 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6869 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6410 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6580 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5702 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1004 MHz

234% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1242 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

53% significantly lower TDP

23 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6 Gigapixels/s

9.94 Gigapixels/s

65% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

48 Gigatexels/s

61% significantly higher texture rate

29.81 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

385th of 586

376th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Iris 550 vs GeForce 940MX specs and performance

For gaming, the Iris 550 graphics card is better than the GeForce 940MX in our tests.

The GeForce 940MX has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce 940MX also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Iris 550 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce 940MX at 23 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Iris 550 is faster than the GeForce 940MX.