GeForce 940MX vs GeForce GTX 285

GeForce 940MX
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 28 Jun 2016
GeForce 940MX
GeForce GTX 285
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Dec 2008
GeForce GTX 285

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX

181 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 285 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 285

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 285

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 285

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 285
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT1R)vsGT200B (G200-350-B3)
Fab Process28 nmvs55 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs470 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,400 million
Shaders384vs240
Compute Units3vs10
Core clock795 MHzvs648 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 285
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1242 MHz
2484 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 285
TDP23 wattsvs204 watts
Release Date28 Jun 2016vs23 Dec 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    6.36 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 285
    20.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    19.08 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 285
    51.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX
    40.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 285
    159.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX
    610.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 285
    708.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better