GeForce 940M and Iris Graphics 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940M vs Iris Graphics 540
GeForce 940M
1156
Iris Graphics 540
1296
GeForce 940M
Iris Graphics 540
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code name
N16S-GT-S/B
Skylake GT3e
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
September 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x1
Boost clock speed
1176 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
1072 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
48
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.22
50.40
Memory type
DDR3
eDRAM
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
eDRAM + 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1.97
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-
Quick Sync
-
+