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    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce 940MX

    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    GeForce 940MX
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 28 Jun 2016
    GeForce 940MX

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 940MX

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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce 940MX
    GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsGM108 (N16S-GT1R)
    Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size200 mm²vs0 mm²
    Transistors4,400 millionvsunknown
    Shaders1280vs384
    Compute Units10vs3
    Core clock1404 MHzvs795 MHz
    ROPs48vs8
    TMUs80vs24

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce 940MX
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
    Memory Speed2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce 940MX
    TDP80 wattsvs23 watts
    Release Date15 Aug 2016vs28 Jun 2016

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      67.40 GP/s
    • GeForce 940MX
      6.36 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      112.30 GT/s
    • GeForce 940MX
      19.08 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

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

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
      3594.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce 940MX
      610.60 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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