NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce 940M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1734MHz vs 1098MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile +689%

8.878 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

1556 MHz

1098 MHz

Boost Clock

1734 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5X

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.0 GPixel/s

35.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

138.7 GFLOPS

1124 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.878 TFLOPS

35.14 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GP104

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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