GeForce 930A vs GeForce 940M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 930A |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 940M |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce 940M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 930A | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM108 () | vs | GM108 (N16S-GT-S) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 0 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 3 |
| Core clock | 928 MHz | vs | 1072 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 930A | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 930A | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 33 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
GeForce 930A
7.42 GP/s
GeForce 940M
8.58 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 930A
22.27 GT/s
GeForce 940M
25.73 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 930A
14.40 GB/s
GeForce 940M
14.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 930A
712.70 GFLOPs
GeForce 940M
823.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better