Intel Iris Plus 650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Compare Intel Iris Plus 650 0 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M, 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

334 points

Identical

334 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS

Identical

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

Identical

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

5 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7106 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5938 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7880 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5207 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7087 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6089 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8012 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5261 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1029 MHz

242% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1150 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

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

6.9 Gigapixels/s

8.99 Gigapixels/s

30% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

55.2 Gigatexels/s

207% significantly higher texture rate

17.98 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

200% 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

367th of 594

368th of 594

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 January

2014 March

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

4.4

4.6

Iris Plus 650 vs GeForce 840M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce 840M GPU is faster than the Iris Plus 650 in gaming.

The GeForce 840M has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the Iris Plus 650 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Iris Plus 650 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce 840M at 33 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce 840M over the Iris Plus 650.