GeForce GTX 850M vs GeForce 940MX
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 850M |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 940MX |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 850M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 850M | | GeForce 940MX | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N15P-GT-A1) | vs | GM108 (N16S-GT1R) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 0 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 3 |
| Core clock | 902 MHz | vs | 795 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 850M | | GeForce 940MX | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 850M | | GeForce 940MX | |
|---|
| TDP | 45 watts | vs | 23 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2014 | vs | 28 Jun 2016 |
GeForce GTX 850M
14.43 GP/s
GeForce 940MX
6.36 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 850M
36.10 GT/s
GeForce 940MX
19.08 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 850M
32.00 GB/s
GeForce 940MX
40.10 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 850M
1154.60 GFLOPs
GeForce 940MX
610.60 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better