GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 970M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 940M 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1098MHz vs 1038MHz)
GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 940M
1124
GeForce GTX 970M
+136%
2657
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 940M
507
GeForce GTX 970M
+348%
2274
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce 940M
120
GeForce GTX 970M
+770%
1044
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Oct 2014
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1020 MHz
Base Clock
924 MHz
1098 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
Render Config
512
Shading Units
1280
32
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
48
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
17.57 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
35.14 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
1124 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
35.14 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GM204
N16S-GT1-KB-B
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Maxwell
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
