NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

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NVIDIA GeForce 940MX NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1242MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 23W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940MX +571%

0.954 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M

0.142 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX

VS

GeForce GT 520M

Graphics Card

Jan 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1004 MHz

Base Clock

-

1242 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

48

24

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.936 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.480 GPixel/s

29.81 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.920 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

953.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.1 GFLOPS

29.81 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

GF119

N16S-GTR-S

GPU Variant

N12P-GV-B-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.292 billion

Unknown

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

23W

TDP

12W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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