NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) vs Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650

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Combined performance score

Iris Plus Graphics 650
4.53
+24.5%

Iris Plus Graphics 650 outperforms Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) by 24% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking613673
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.75no data
ArchitectureGen. 9.5 Kaby Lake (2015−2017)Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code nameKaby Lake GT3eSurface Book
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2017 (7 years old)1 October 2015 (8 years old)
Current price$949 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores48384
Core clock speed300 MHz954 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz993 MHz
Number of transistors189 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate55.20no data
Floating-point performance883 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Iris Plus Graphics 650 and Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x1no data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount32 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared5012 MHz
Shared memory+-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsno data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimusno data+
Quick Sync+no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.1.103no data
CUDAno data+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Iris Plus Graphics 650 4.53
+24.5%
Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 3.64

Iris Plus Graphics 650 outperforms Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) by 24% in our combined benchmark results.


3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Iris Plus Graphics 650 2762
+7.2%
Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 2577

Iris Plus Graphics 650 outperforms Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) by 7% in 3DMark 11 Performance GPU.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Iris Plus Graphics 650 1698
Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 2076
+22.2%

Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) outperforms Iris Plus Graphics 650 by 22% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Iris Plus Graphics 650 13153
+15.6%
Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 11380

Iris Plus Graphics 650 outperforms Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) by 16% in 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU.

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

Iris Plus Graphics 650 161538
+30.9%
Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) 123411

Iris Plus Graphics 650 outperforms Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) by 31% in 3DMark Ice Storm GPU.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD22
−27.3%
28
+27.3%

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 3−4
+50%
2−3
−50%
Battlefield 5 12−14
+44.4%
9−10
−44.4%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 14−16
+7.1%
14−16
−7.1%
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Far Cry 5 9−10
+50%
6−7
−50%
Far Cry New Dawn 9−10
+50%
6−7
−50%
Forza Horizon 4 14−16
+27.3%
10−12
−27.3%
Hitman 3 10−11
+25%
8−9
−25%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2 9−10
+28.6%
7−8
−28.6%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 12−14
+20%
10−11
−20%
Watch Dogs: Legion 5−6
+25%
4−5
−25%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 3−4
+50%
2−3
−50%
Battlefield 5 12−14
+44.4%
9−10
−44.4%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 14−16
+7.1%
14−16
−7.1%
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Far Cry 5 9−10
+50%
6−7
−50%
Far Cry New Dawn 9−10
+50%
6−7
−50%
Forza Horizon 4 14−16
+27.3%
10−12
−27.3%
Hitman 3 10−11
+25%
8−9
−25%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Metro Exodus 6−7
+20%
5−6
−20%
Red Dead Redemption 2 9−10
+28.6%
7−8
−28.6%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 12−14
+20%
10−11
−20%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10−11
+25%
8−9
−25%
Watch Dogs: Legion 5−6
+25%
4−5
−25%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 3−4
+50%
2−3
−50%
Battlefield 5 12−14
+44.4%
9−10
−44.4%
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Far Cry 5 9−10
+50%
6−7
−50%
Far Cry New Dawn 9−10
+50%
6−7
−50%
Forza Horizon 4 14−16
+27.3%
10−12
−27.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10−11
+25%
8−9
−25%
Watch Dogs: Legion 5−6
+25%
4−5
−25%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 7−8
+16.7%
6−7
−16.7%
Hitman 3 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn 10−12
+37.5%
8−9
−37.5%
Metro Exodus 3−4
+50%
2−3
−50%
Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
+50%
2−3
−50%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 8−9
+14.3%
7−8
−14.3%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
+100%
1−2
−100%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
+100%
1−2
−100%
Far Cry 5 7−8
+16.7%
6−7
−16.7%
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
+200%
1−2
−200%
Forza Horizon 4 5−6
+66.7%
3−4
−66.7%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 4−5
+33.3%
3−4
−33.3%
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1 0−1

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
Hitman 3 4−5
+33.3%
3−4
−33.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1−2 0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2 0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2−3
+100%
1−2
−100%
Cyberpunk 2077 0−1 0−1
Far Cry 5 5−6
+25%
4−5
−25%
Far Cry New Dawn 7−8
+16.7%
6−7
−16.7%
Forza Horizon 4 2−3
+100%
1−2
−100%

This is how Iris Plus Graphics 650 and Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) compete in popular games:

1080p resolution:

  • Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) is 27.3% faster than Iris Plus Graphics 650

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Far Cry New Dawn, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the Iris Plus Graphics 650 is 200% faster than the Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5).

All in all, in popular games:

  • Iris Plus Graphics 650 is ahead in 35 tests (92%)
  • there's a draw in 3 tests (8%)

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 4.53 3.64
Recency 3 January 2017 1 October 2015
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

The Iris Plus Graphics 650 is our recommended choice as it beats the Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) in performance tests.


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