GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1060, which features clock speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 1060		12359 points
GeForce 940M		1740 points
	Difference: 10619 (610%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce 940M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 180608 (1129%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 should be much (about 368%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 94752 (368%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the GeForce 940M, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 63712 (743%)

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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.