GeForce 940MX vs GeForce GTX 950

GeForce 940MX
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 28 Jun 2016
GeForce 940MX
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX

67 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 950 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 950
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT1R)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,940 million
Shaders384vs768
Compute Units3vs6
Core clock795 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 950
TDP23 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date28 Jun 2016vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    6.36 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    19.08 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX
    40.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX
    610.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better