GeForce 940M vs GeForce 9500 GT

GeForce 940M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 940M
GeForce 9500 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2008
GeForce 9500 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9500 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 940M

HWBench recommends GeForce 940M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MGeForce 9500 GT
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT-S)vsG96C ()
Fab Process28 nmvs55 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs121 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs314 million
Shaders384vs32
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1072 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs24vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MGeForce 9500 GT
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MGeForce 9500 GT
TDP33 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs29 Jul 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940M
    8.58 GP/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940M
    25.73 GT/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940M
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940M
    823.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    89.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better