Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare Intel Iris Xe vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, 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

974 points

199% significantly better overall score

325 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

14 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

169 points

506 points

199% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.90 points

108% significantly higher Blender score

48.42 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

14184 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6193 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

14105 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5469 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11957 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6264 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16575 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5609 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1020 MHz

239% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

0.18% slightly higher boost clock speed

1098 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

400% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigapixels/s

17.57 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

26.4 Gigatexels/s

35.14 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

512

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly 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

269th of 595

374th of 595

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Iris Xe vs GeForce 940M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Iris Xe GPU is faster than the GeForce 940M in gaming.

The GeForce 940M 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. Despite this, the Iris Xe has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Iris Xe has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce 940M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Iris Xe over the GeForce 940M.