GeForce 840M vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

GeForce 840M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce 840M
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 840M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    102%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 840M

83 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 550 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 550 Ti

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 840MGeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU NameGM108 (N15S-GT)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,170 million
Shaders384vs192
Compute Units3vs4
Core clock1029 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs8vs24
TMUs16vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 840MGeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 840MGeForce GTX 550 Ti
TDP33 wattsvs116 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2014vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 840M
    8.23 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 840M
    16.46 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 840M
    16.02 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 840M
    790.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 840M
    2430
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    2490

Points (higher is better)