NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M NVIDIA GeForce 940M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1098MHz

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480M

0.598 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M +87%

1.124 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480M

VS

GeForce 940M

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1098 MHz

600 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

11

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

352

Shading Units

512

44

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

9.350 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.57 GPixel/s

18.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.14 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

598.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1124 GFLOPS

74.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.14 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GM107

N11E-GTX-A3

GPU Variant

N16S-GT1-KB-B

Fermi

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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