Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Iris Xe MAX Graphics and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1650MHz vs 1098MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (68.26GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
+125%
2.534 TFLOPS
GeForce 940M
1.124 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Mar 2015
HD Graphics-M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
300 MHz
Base Clock
1020 MHz
1650 MHz
Boost Clock
1098 MHz
2133 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
LPDDR4X
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
68.26GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
512
48
TMUs
32
24
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
39.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.57 GPixel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
35.14 GTexel/s
5.069 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.534 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1124 GFLOPS
633.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
35.14 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
75W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
DG1
GPU Name
GM107
-
GPU Variant
N16S-GT1-KB-B
Generation 12.1
Architecture
Maxwell
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
1.87 billion
95 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
