GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, which uses a 14 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1290 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 32 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 1050 Ti		7734 points
GeForce 940M		1740 points
	Difference: 5994 (344%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 940M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 98688 (617%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 141%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36192 (141%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is quite a bit (about 381%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 940M, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32704 (381%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.