GeForce 940M vs GeForce 845M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 940M |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 845M |
| 42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 940M . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 940M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 940M | | GeForce 845M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N16S-GT1-KB-B) | vs | GM108 () |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 0 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 512 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 3 |
| Core clock | 1029 MHz | vs | 1071 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 940M | | GeForce 845M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 940M | | GeForce 845M | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 33 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 26 Aug 2015 |
GeForce 940M
16.46 GP/s
GeForce 845M
17.14 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 940M
32.90 GT/s
GeForce 845M
34.30 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 940M
28.80 GB/s
GeForce 845M
40.10 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 940M
1053.70 GFLOPs
GeForce 845M
822.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better