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GeForce 940M vs GeForce GT 420

Intro

The GeForce 940M has core clock speeds of 1072 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 420, which has core clock speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 48 SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 420 should be 80% faster than the GeForce 940M overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GT 420 28800 MB/sec
GeForce 940M 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 940M is a lot (about 359%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 420. (explain)

GeForce 940M 25728 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 420 5600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20128 (359%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 940M is superior to the GeForce GT 420, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 940M 8576 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 420 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5776 (206%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 940M GeForce GT 420
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 12 2015 September 2010
Code Name GM108 GF108
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1072 MHz 700 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25728 Mtexels/sec 5600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 8576 Mpixels/sec 2800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 48
Texture Mapping Units 24 8
Render Output Units 8 4
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 585 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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