GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1002 MHz on this specific card. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units 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 560 Ti		3466 points
GeForce 940M		1740 points
	Difference: 1726 (99%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce 940M overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce 940M		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 112256 (702%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 104%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 940M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 940M		25728 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26880 (104%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 940M		8576 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17728 (207%)

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 MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.