GeForce 940MX vs GeForce GTX 460 SE

GeForce 940MX
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 28 Jun 2016
GeForce 940MX
GeForce GTX 460 SE
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Nov 2010
GeForce GTX 460 SE
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX

127 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 SE .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 460 SE

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 460 SE

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 460 SE

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 460 SE
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT1R)vsGF104 (GF104-225-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,950 million
Shaders384vs288
Compute Units3vs6
Core clock795 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 460 SE
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MXGeForce GTX 460 SE
TDP23 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date28 Jun 2016vs15 Nov 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    6.36 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    7.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    19.08 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    31.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX
    40.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    109.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX
    610.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 460 SE
    748.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better