NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

NVIDIA GeForce 940A

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

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

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A +40%

0.863 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

VS

GeForce 940A

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1029 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.420 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

25.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

-

616.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

51.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

GM108

N11E-GT

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

Unknown

332 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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