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    GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile vs GeForce 940MX

    GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    GeForce 940MX
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 28 Jun 2016
    GeForce 940MX

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

    97 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile .
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1070 Mobile

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce 940MX
    GPU NameGP104 ()vsGM108 (N16S-GT1R)
    Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size314 mm²vs0 mm²
    Transistors7,200 millionvsunknown
    Shaders2048vs384
    Compute Units16vs3
    Core clock1442 MHzvs795 MHz
    ROPs64vs8
    TMUs128vs24

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce 940MX
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
    Memory Speed2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1070 MobileGeForce 940MX
    TDP120 wattsvs23 watts
    Release Date15 Aug 2016vs28 Jun 2016

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
      92.30 GP/s
    • GeForce 940MX
      6.36 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
      184.60 GT/s
    • GeForce 940MX
      19.08 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
      256.30 GB/s
    • GeForce 940MX
      40.10 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
      5906.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce 940MX
      610.60 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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