GeForce GTX 960M and Iris Graphics 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs Iris Graphics 540
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Iris Graphics 540
1296
GeForce GTX 960M
Iris Graphics 540
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Skylake GT3e
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
September 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x1
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
48
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
50.40
Memory type
GDDR5
eDRAM
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
eDRAM + 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
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
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
Quick Sync
-
+