GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile vs GeForce 940M

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 3 Nov 2016
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
GeForce 940M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 940M

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 940M

42 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileGeForce 940M
GPU NameGP107 ()vsGM108 (N16S-GT-S)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvsunknown
Shaders768vs384
Compute Units6vs3
Core clock1490 MHzvs1072 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs48vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileGeForce 940M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti MobileGeForce 940M
TDP75 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date3 Nov 2016vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    47.70 GP/s
  • GeForce 940M
    8.58 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    71.50 GT/s
  • GeForce 940M
    25.73 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    112.10 GB/s
  • GeForce 940M
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile
    2288.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 940M
    823.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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