NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

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NVIDIA GeForce 940M NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1098MHz vs 758MHz)

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

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940M +286%

1.124 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

VS

GeForce GT 720M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

1098 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

192

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.032 GPixel/s

35.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.13 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1124 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

291.1 GFLOPS

35.14 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.13 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GK208

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GPU Variant

GT 720M

Maxwell

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.0

CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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