GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, which has clock speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 72 TAUs and 48 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 1060 3GB		12185 points
GeForce 940M		1740 points
	Difference: 10445 (600%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce 940M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 180608 (1129%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB will be much (about 321%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 82704 (321%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should be quite a bit (approximately 743%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 940M, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		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 MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.