NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1545MHz vs 1242MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)
4736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 940MX
0.954 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+1558%
15.82 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 940MX
579
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+2188%
13251
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce 940MX
132
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+4877%
6570
Blender
GeForce 940MX
72
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+5987%
4383
Graphics Card
Jan 2016
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 900M
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1004 MHz
Base Clock
1110 MHz
1242 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
16.02GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
40
384
Shading Units
5120
24
TMUs
160
8
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.936 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
29.81 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
247.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
15.82 TFLOPS
953.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.82 TFLOPS
29.81 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
247.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
100W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM108
GPU Name
AD104
N16S-GTR-S
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
Unknown
Transistors
35.8 billion
Unknown
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
CUDA
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
