GeForce 940MX DDR3 vs GeForce GT 640 GDDR5

GeForce 940MX DDR3
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 1 Jan 2016
GeForce 940MX DDR3
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2013
GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    107%
  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX DDR3

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 7% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 640 GDDR5

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 940MX DDR3

HWBench recommends GeForce 940MX DDR3

The GeForce 940MX DDR3 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MX DDR3GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GTR-S)vsGK208 (GK208-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistorsunknownvsunknown
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1122 MHzvs1046 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs24vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MX DDR3GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs1252 MHz
5008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MX DDR3GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
TDP23 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date1 Jan 2016vs29 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    8.98 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    8.37 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    26.93 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    16.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    16.02 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    861.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    803.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    2450
  • GeForce GT 640 GDDR5
    2280

Points (higher is better)