GeForce 940M vs GeForce GT 520M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 940M 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1098MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
464 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (12W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 940M
+691%
1124
GeForce GT 520M
142
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 940M
+476%
507
GeForce GT 520M
88
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1020 MHz
Base Clock
-
1098 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
1
512
Shading Units
48
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
17.57 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.480 GPixel/s
35.14 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.920 GTexel/s
1124 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
142.1 GFLOPS
35.14 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.84 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
12W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GF119
N16S-GT1-KB-B
GPU Variant
N12P-GV-B-A1
Maxwell
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
