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    GeForce 940M vs GeForce 940A

    GeForce 940M
    Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce 940M
    GeForce 940A
    Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce 940A
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce 940M
      100%
    • GeForce 940A
      100%

    Relative performance

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce 940A

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    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 940MGeForce 940A
    GPU NameGM107 (N16S-GT1-KB-B)vsGM108 (N16S-GT-S)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size148 mm²vs0 mm²
    Transistors1,870 millionvsunknown
    Shaders512vs384
    Compute Units4vs3
    Core clock1029 MHzvs1029 MHz
    ROPs16vs8
    TMUs32vs16

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce 940MGeForce 940A
    Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
    Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
    Memory Speed900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective    		vs1001 MHz
    2002 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce 940MGeForce 940A
    TDP75 wattsvs33 watts
    Release Date13 Mar 2015vs13 Mar 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce 940M
      16.46 GP/s
    • GeForce 940A
      8.23 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce 940M
      32.90 GT/s
    • GeForce 940A
      16.46 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce 940M
      28.80 GB/s
    • GeForce 940A
      16.02 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce 940M
      1053.70 GFLOPs
    • GeForce 940A
      790.30 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce 940M
      2450
    • GeForce 940A
      2450

    Points (higher is better)

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