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GeForce 940M vs GeForce 9600 GT 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 940M has a core clock frequency of 1072 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, which features a core clock frequency of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 65/55 nm design. It features 64 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce 940M overall. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 57600 MB/sec
GeForce 940M 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 41600 (260%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 940M should be much (more or less 24%) better at AF than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 940M 25728 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 20800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4928 (24%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB will be quite a bit (more or less 21%) better at AA than the GeForce 940M, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 10400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M 8576 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1824 (21%)

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 9600 GT 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 12 2015 Feb 2008
Code Name GM108 G94a/b
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1072 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 57600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25728 Mtexels/sec 20800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8576 Mpixels/sec 10400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 64
Texture Mapping Units 24 32
Render Output Units 8 16
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 65/55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 505 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16 2.0
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 10
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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