GeForce 940M vs GeForce 930MX

GeForce 940M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 940M
GeForce 930MX
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Mar 2016
GeForce 930MX
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 940M
    119%
  • GeForce 930MX
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 940M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 930MX

58 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 940M .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 940M

HWBench recommends GeForce 940M

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MGeForce 930MX
GPU NameGM107 (N16S-GT1-KB-B)vsGM108 (N16S-GMR)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvsunknown
Shaders512vs384
Compute Units4vs3
Core clock1029 MHzvs952 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MGeForce 930MX
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MGeForce 930MX
TDP75 wattsvs17 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs1 Mar 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940M
    16.46 GP/s
  • GeForce 930MX
    15.23 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940M
    32.90 GT/s
  • GeForce 930MX
    22.85 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce 930MX
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940M
    1053.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 930MX
    731.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 940M
    2450
  • GeForce 930MX
    2050

Points (higher is better)

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