GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce 940MX
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX |
| 52 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1050 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 1050
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1050 | | GeForce 940MX | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP107 (GP107-300-A1) | vs | GM108 (N16S-GT1R) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 132 mm² | vs | 0 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,300 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 3 |
| Core clock | 1354 MHz | vs | 795 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1050 | | GeForce 940MX | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1050 | | GeForce 940MX | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 23 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Oct 2016 | vs | 28 Jun 2016 |
GeForce GTX 1050
43.30 GP/s
GeForce 940MX
6.36 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1050
54.20 GT/s
GeForce 940MX
19.08 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1050
112.10 GB/s
GeForce 940MX
40.10 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 1050
1733.10 GFLOPs
GeForce 940MX
610.60 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better