NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1242MHz vs 1038MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +178%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX

0.954 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970M +291%

2285

GeForce 940MX

584

Blender

GeForce GTX 970M +188%

208

GeForce 940MX

72

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970M +1225%

53

GeForce 940MX

4

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce 940MX

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1004 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1242 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.936 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.81 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

953.9 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

29.81 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM108

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N16S-GTR-S

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

Unknown

398 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

5.0

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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