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GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

The GeForce 940M makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1072 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 960, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1127 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 960 7627 points
GeForce 940M 1740 points
Difference: 5887 (338%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 960 should be a lot faster than the GeForce 940M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
GeForce 940M 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 96000 (600%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is a lot (more or less 180%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M 25728 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 46400 (180%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960 is superior to the GeForce 940M, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M 8576 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 27488 (321%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 940M GeForce GTX 960
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 12 2015 January 2015
Code Name GM108 GM206
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1072 MHz 1127 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25728 Mtexels/sec 72128 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8576 Mpixels/sec 36064 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 1024
Texture Mapping Units 24 64
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 2940 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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