NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1098MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 315M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940M +2782%

1.124 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

VS

GeForce 315M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

-

1098 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

16

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

35.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1124 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.78 GFLOPS

35.14 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GT218

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GPU Variant

N11M-GE

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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