GeForce 930A vs GeForce 940MX DDR3

GeForce 930A Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE Release date: 13 Mar 2015

GeForce 940MX DDR3 Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE Release date: 1 Jan 2016

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Summary

Synthetic performance index

GeForce 930A
100%
GeForce 940MX DDR3
119%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 930A

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 940MX DDR3

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Around 19% higher average synthetic performance.

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 940MX DDR3

The GeForce 940MX DDR3 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

Specifications

Core Configuration

	GeForce 930A		GeForce 940MX DDR3
GPU Name	GM108 ()	vs	GM108 (N16S-GTR-S)
Fab Process	28 nm	vs	28 nm
Die Size	0 mmÂ²	vs	0 mmÂ²
Transistors	unknown	vs	unknown
Shaders	384	vs	384
Compute Units	3	vs	3
Core clock	928 MHz	vs	1122 MHz
ROPs	8	vs	8
TMUs	24	vs	24

Memory Configuration

	GeForce 930A		GeForce 940MX DDR3
Memory Type	DDR3	vs	DDR3
Bus Width	64 bit	vs	64 bit
Memory Speed	900 MHz 1800 MHz effective	vs	1001 MHz 2002 MHz effective
Memory Size	2048 Mb	vs	2048 Mb

Additional details

	GeForce 930A		GeForce 940MX DDR3
TDP	33 watts	vs	23 watts
Release Date	13 Mar 2015	vs	1 Jan 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

GeForce 930A
7.42 GP/s
GeForce 940MX DDR3
8.98 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

GeForce 930A
22.27 GT/s
GeForce 940MX DDR3
26.93 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

GeForce 930A
14.40 GB/s
GeForce 940MX DDR3
16.02 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

GeForce 930A
712.70 GFLOPs
GeForce 940MX DDR3
861.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

GeForce 930A
2050
GeForce 940MX DDR3
2450

Points (higher is better)

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