GeForce 940MX vs GeForce GTX 480
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX |
| 227 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 480 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 480
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 940MX | | GeForce GTX 480 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM108 (N16S-GT1R) | vs | GF100 (GF100-375-A3) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 529 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 3,100 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 480 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 15 |
| Core clock | 795 MHz | vs | 701 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 48 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 60 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 940MX | | GeForce GTX 480 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 924 MHz
3696 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1536 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 940MX | | GeForce GTX 480 | |
|---|
| TDP | 23 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 28 Jun 2016 | vs | 26 Mar 2010 |
GeForce 940MX
6.36 GP/s
GeForce GTX 480
21.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 940MX
19.08 GT/s
GeForce GTX 480
42.10 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 940MX
40.10 GB/s
GeForce GTX 480
177.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 940MX
610.60 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 480
1345.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better