GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 940M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 745 OEM |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GTX 745 OEM
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 940M | | GeForce GTX 745 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM108 (N16S-GT-S) | vs | GM107 (GM107-300-A2) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 148 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 1,870 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 3 |
| Core clock | 1072 MHz | vs | 1033 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 940M | | GeForce GTX 745 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 940M | | GeForce GTX 745 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 55 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 18 Feb 2014 |
GeForce 940M
8.58 GP/s
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
16.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 940M
25.73 GT/s
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
24.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 940M
14.40 GB/s
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
28.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 940M
823.30 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
793.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better