GeForce 940A vs GeForce GTX 285
Summary
GeForce 940A
100%
GeForce GTX 285
120%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce 940A |
| 171 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 285 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GTX 285 |
| Around 20% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 285
The GeForce GTX 285 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce GTX 285 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM108 (N16S-GT-S) | vs | GT200B (G200-350-B3) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 470 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 1,400 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 240 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 1029 MHz | vs | 648 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce GTX 285 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 512 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective | vs | 1242 MHz
2484 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce GTX 285 | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 204 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 23 Dec 2008 |
GeForce 940A
8.23 GP/s
GeForce GTX 285
20.70 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 940A
16.46 GT/s
GeForce GTX 285
51.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 940A
16.02 GB/s
GeForce GTX 285
159.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 940A
790.30 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 285
708.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce 940A
2450
GeForce GTX 285
2950
Points (higher is better)