GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 280M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 940M 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock1098MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
384 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 940M
+200%
1124
GeForce GTX 280M
374
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Mar 2009
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 200M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-IV
Clock Speeds
1020 MHz
Base Clock
-
1098 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
950 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
60.80GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
16
512
Shading Units
128
32
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
17.57 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.360 GPixel/s
35.14 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.44 GTexel/s
1124 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
374.5 GFLOPS
35.14 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
G92
N16S-GT1-KB-B
GPU Variant
N10E-GTX
Maxwell
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
