GeForce 940A vs GeForce 9800 GX2

GeForce 940A
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 940A
GeForce 9800 GX2
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GX2

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 940A
    100%
  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    105%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 940A

164 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GX2 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9800 GX2

Around 5% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce 9800 GX2

HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GX2

The GeForce 9800 GX2 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940AGeForce 9800 GX2
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT-S)vsG92 (G92-450-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs65 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs754 million
Shaders384vs128
Compute Units3vs8
Core clock1029 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs16vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940AGeForce 9800 GX2
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940AGeForce 9800 GX2
TDP33 wattsvs197 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs18 Mar 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940A
    8.23 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    19.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940A
    16.46 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    76.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940A
    16.02 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940A
    790.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 940A
    2450
  • GeForce 9800 GX2
    2590

Points (higher is better)