Intel Iris 6100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare Intel Iris 6100 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

223 points
232 points
4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
Identical
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
Identical
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
2 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3575 points
3590 points
0.42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4075 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3564 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3026 points
3852 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4499 points
13% slightly 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

413th of 586
406th 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

4.4
4.6

Iris 6100 vs GeForce GT 740M comparison

For gaming, the Iris 6100 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 740M in our tests.

In addition, the Iris 6100 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740M at 33 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Iris 6100 is faster than the GeForce GT 740M.

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