GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 960M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1176MHz vs 1098MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 940M
1124
GeForce GTX 960M
+33%
1505
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 940M
507
GeForce GTX 960M
+141%
1225
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce 940M
120
GeForce GTX 960M
+370%
565
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Mar 2015
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1020 MHz
Base Clock
1097 MHz
1098 MHz
Boost Clock
1176 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
Render Config
512
Shading Units
640
32
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
17.57 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
35.14 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
1124 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.505 TFLOPS
35.14 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GM107
N16S-GT1-KB-B
GPU Variant
N16P-GX-A1
Maxwell
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
CUDA
5.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
