GeForce 940MX vs GeForce GTX 650

GeForce 940MX
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 28 Jun 2016
GeForce 940MX
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 650 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 650

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 650

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 650
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT1R)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,540 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock795 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 650
TDP23 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date28 Jun 2016vs27 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    6.36 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    19.08 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX
    40.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX
    610.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better