NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940A +40%

0.863 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

VS

GeForce GTX 470M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 900A

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

384

Shading Units

288

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

24

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.420 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.68 GTexel/s

-

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

616.3 GFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

GF104

-

GPU Variant

N11E-GT

Maxwell

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.95 billion

Unknown

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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