GeForce 940M vs GeForce GT 720M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 940M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1098MHz vs 758MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 940M
+286%
1124
GeForce GT 720M
291
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 940M
+178%
507
GeForce GT 720M
182
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 700M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1020 MHz
Base Clock
719 MHz
1098 MHz
Boost Clock
758 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
512
Shading Units
192
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
17.57 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.032 GPixel/s
35.14 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.13 GTexel/s
1124 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
291.1 GFLOPS
35.14 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.13 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
33W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GK208
N16S-GT1-KB-B
GPU Variant
GT 720M
Maxwell
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
1.02 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
87 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
5.0
CUDA
3.5
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
