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    GeForce 940A vs GeForce 940MX DDR3

    GeForce 940A
    Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce 940A
    GeForce 940MX DDR3
    Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 1 Jan 2016
    GeForce 940MX DDR3
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce 940A
      100%
    • GeForce 940MX DDR3
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce 940A

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

    These graphics cards seems to have comparable performance based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 combinations of games and resolutions).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce 940AGeForce 940MX DDR3
    GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT-S)vsGM108 (N16S-GTR-S)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size0 mm²vs0 mm²
    Transistorsunknownvsunknown
    Shaders384vs384
    Compute Units3vs3
    Core clock1029 MHzvs1122 MHz
    ROPs8vs8
    TMUs16vs24

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce 940AGeForce 940MX DDR3
    Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
    Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
    Memory Speed1001 MHz
    2002 MHz effective    		vs1001 MHz
    2002 MHz effective
    Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce 940AGeForce 940MX DDR3
    TDP33 wattsvs23 watts
    Release Date13 Mar 2015vs1 Jan 2016

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce 940A
      8.23 GP/s
    • GeForce 940MX DDR3
      8.98 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce 940A
      16.46 GT/s
    • GeForce 940MX DDR3
      26.93 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce 940A
      16.02 GB/s
    • GeForce 940MX DDR3
      16.02 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce 940A
      790.30 GFLOPs
    • GeForce 940MX DDR3
      861.70 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce 940A
      2450
    • GeForce 940MX DDR3
      2450

    Points (higher is better)

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