NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M NVIDIA GeForce 840M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 840M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 840M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M +66%

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce 840M

0.863 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 950M +41%

95

GeForce 840M

67

GeForce GTX 950M

VS

GeForce 840M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GM108

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

N15S-GT

Maxwell

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

Unknown

148 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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

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