GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

GeForce 940M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 940M
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jan 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940M

137 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 560 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MGeForce GTX 560 Ti
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT-S)vsGF114 (GF114-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,950 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs8
Core clock1072 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MGeForce GTX 560 Ti
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MGeForce GTX 560 Ti
TDP33 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs25 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940M
    8.58 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    13.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940M
    25.73 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    52.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940M
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940M
    823.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    1263.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better