GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce 940M
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1098 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
64 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 1080
CORE STATE
GP104
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1733 MHz
TDP
180 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Pascal
PROCESS
16 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
940M
GTX 1080
Core Specs
Shading Units
512
2,560
+400.0%
Shaders
512
2,560
+400.0%
TMUs
32
160
+400.0%
ROPs
16
64
+300.0%
SM Count
—
20
Clocks
Base Clock
1020 MHz
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
1098 MHz
1733 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
1251 MHz
10 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
DDR3
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
64 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
14.40 GB/s
320.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
17.57 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
35.14 GTexel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,124.4 GFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
35.14 GFLOPS (1:32)
277.3 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)
Power
TDP
75 W
180 W
TDP (W)
75
180
+140.0%
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell
Pascal
GPU Name
GM107
GP104
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce 10
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
1,870 million
7,200 million
Die Size
148 mm²
314 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.6M / mm²
22.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
5.0
6.1
Shader Model
6.7 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
599 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
GeForce 900
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
GeForce 20