GeForce 940MX vs GeForce GTX 1060

GeForce 940MX
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 28 Jun 2016
GeForce 940MX
GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX

97 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1060

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 1060
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT1R)vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs16 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs4,400 million
Shaders384vs1280
Compute Units3vs10
Core clock795 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs8vs48
TMUs24vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 1060
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 1060
TDP23 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date28 Jun 2016vs10 Jul 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    6.36 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    19.08 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX
    40.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX
    610.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better