NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

NVIDIA GeForce 940M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 980MX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1178MHz vs 1098MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +248%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

GeForce 940M

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1020 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1098 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

1664

Shading Units

512

104

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.57 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.14 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1124 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.14 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM107

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N16S-GT1-KB-B

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

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

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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