GeForce 840A vs GeForce 940A

GeForce 840A
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 17 Mar 2014
GeForce 840A
GeForce 940A
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 940A

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 840A
    100%
  • GeForce 940A
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 840A

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 940A

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 840AGeForce 940A
GPU NameGM108 ()vsGM108 (N16S-GT-S)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistorsunknownvsunknown
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs3
Core clock1029 MHzvs1029 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 840AGeForce 940A
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 840AGeForce 940A
TDP33 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date17 Mar 2014vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 840A
    8.23 GP/s
  • GeForce 940A
    8.23 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 840A
    16.46 GT/s
  • GeForce 940A
    16.46 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 840A
    16.02 GB/s
  • GeForce 940A
    16.02 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 840A
    790.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 940A
    790.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 840A
    2430
  • GeForce 940A
    2450

Points (higher is better)

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