GeForce 940M vs 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce 940M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 940M | | GeForce 9500 GT | |
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GPU Name | GM108 (N16S-GT-S) | vs | G96C () |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 55 nm |
Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 121 mm² |
Transistors | unknown | vs | 314 million |
Shaders | 384 | vs | 32 |
Compute Units | 3 | vs | 2 |
Core clock | 1072 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
ROPs | 8 | vs | 8 |
TMUs | 24 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 940M | | GeForce 9500 GT | |
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Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 940M | | GeForce 9500 GT | |
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TDP | 33 watts | vs | 50 watts |
Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 29 Jul 2008 |
GeForce 940M
8.58 GP/s
GeForce 9500 GT
4.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 940M
25.73 GT/s
GeForce 9500 GT
8.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 940M
14.40 GB/s
GeForce 9500 GT
25.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 940M
823.30 GFLOPs
GeForce 9500 GT
89.60 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better