NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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NVIDIA GeForce 940A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1124MHz

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940A +130%

0.863 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 900A

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

384

Shading Units

128

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

G92

-

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.754 billion

Unknown

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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