NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Comparison

The database pairing of the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server against the NVIDIA GeForce 940M is a study in contrasts rather than a contest: one is an active datacenter-class accelerator built on Blackwell 2.0, the other an end-of-life Maxwell-era mobile part designed for thin laptops. The recorded data shows both cards sitting in a similar percentile band of the full GPU population, at the 34th and 31st percentiles respectively, but the similarity ends there. They were never benchmarked on a common test suite, and their specifications diverge across every measurable dimension.

Where Each One Wins

With no overlapping benchmark tests in the database, head-to-head scoring is not possible: the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server carries a single recorded result, while the GeForce 940M has two, and none of them share a test name. What the data does show is each part's standing against its own nearest rivals.

The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server posts an average benchmark score of 5996 from a single 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 run. Its neighbors in the rankings are an eclectic mix: the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M at 6000, the AMD Radeon RX 6400 at 6001, the AMD FirePro W4100 at 5987, and the NVIDIA Quadro K4000M at 5986. That places the Blackwell server card essentially dead level with laptop gaming chips from older generations and low-profile desktop cards, a reminder that percentile rankings across the whole database mix very different product classes and workload types. A single 3DMark score is a narrow lens for a card with this hardware footprint.

The GeForce 940M averages 5284 across its two Geekbench results, an OpenCL score of 6018 and a Vulkan score of 4549. Its rivals cluster tightly: the GeForce GTX 980M at 5308, the GeForce 930A at 5317, the GeForce 840M at 5322, and the GTX 760M at 5236. The spread between the strongest and weakest of these neighbors is under one hundred points, so the 940M sits in genuinely crowded company, separated from the GTX 980M by less than half a percent and sitting marginally ahead of the GTX 760M. For a thin-and-light mobile GPU with no dedicated power connector, ranking alongside a former flagship mobile gaming chip in averaged compute scores is the 940M's clearest win in this dataset.

In practical terms, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server wins wherever raw scale matters: compute throughput, memory capacity, bandwidth, and feature support. The 940M wins on power efficiency and form factor, drawing 75 W with no auxiliary connector in an MXM module, compared to a 600 W datacenter card fed by a 16-pin connector and paired with a 1000 W suggested PSU.

FAQ

Q: Do the two cards share any benchmark results?

A: No. The database contains no common test between them. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server has one recorded result, a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 5996, while the GeForce 940M has a Geekbench OpenCL score of 6018 and a Geekbench Vulkan score of 4549.

Q: Which card is newer?

A: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server was released in 2025 and is in active production. The GeForce 940M was released in 2015 and is end-of-life.

Q: How do their percentile rankings compare?

A: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server sits in the 34th percentile of all GPUs in the database; the GeForce 940M sits in the 31st. The gap is narrow, but the percentile metric spans the entire database population and should not be read as a direct performance comparison between the two.

Q: How much more compute throughput does the Blackwell card have?

A: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server delivers 126.0 TFLOPS of FP32 compute against 1,124.4 GFLOPS for the 940M, a difference of more than two orders of magnitude. Texture rate shows the same pattern: 1,968.0 GTexel/s versus 35.14 GTexel/s.

Q: Can the GeForce 940M run modern ray-traced or AI workloads?

A: The recorded data shows no RT cores and no tensor cores on the 940M. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server lists 188 RT cores and 752 tensor cores, so hardware-accelerated ray tracing and tensor operations are exclusive to the Blackwell card in this comparison.

Q: What display outputs does each provide?

A: The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server offers four DisplayPort 2.1b outputs. The 940M's outputs are listed as portable device dependent, since it is an MXM module integrated into laptops.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

Direct benchmark comparison is impossible here, and it is worth being explicit about why. The head-to-head benchmark table between these two parts is empty, with zero recorded wins for either card, because no test was ever run on both. Each card's results come from entirely different suites.

Reading each card's results in isolation still yields insight. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server's Steel Nomad score of 5996 lands it 4 points behind the GTX 770M and 5 points behind the Radeon RX 6400, while edging past the FirePro W4100 by 9 points and the Quadro K4000M by 10. These margins are fractions of a percent, effectively ties. For a card with 24,064 shading units and 96 GB of GDDR7, ranking alongside those parts on this single test underscores how much the database's cross-class averaging can obscure: Steel Nomad measures one slice of graphics behavior, not the datacenter workloads this product line targets. Its successor and predecessor in the database lineage are Server Rubin and Server Hopper respectively, which frames the intended workload context better than any consumer graphics test could.

The 940M's split between OpenCL and Vulkan is more informative. Its OpenCL score of 6018 is notably stronger than its Vulkan score of 4549, a gap of nearly 1,500 points within its own results. Against rivals, it trails the GTX 980M by 24 points on the averaged score, trails the 930A by 33 and the 840M by 38, and leads the GTX 760M by 48. Every one of those margins sits within one percent, meaning the 940M is statistically inseparable from a cluster that includes a former high-end mobile gaming GPU. The recorded data suggests the 940M's general compute performance holds up respectably against its era's faster gaming parts, even though its 2 GB of DDR3 memory and 14.40 GB/s of bandwidth impose a hard ceiling on any workload that needs capacity or throughput.

Specification Differences

The two cards differ on every specification field in the database, which is expected given they belong to different product classes, different architectures, and different decades of process technology.

The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server uses the GB202 chip on TSMC's 5 nm node with 92,200 million transistors on a 750 mm² die. The 940M uses the GM107 chip on TSMC's 28 nm node with 1,870 million transistors on a 148 mm² die. Transistor density reflects the node gap: 122.9M per mm² for Blackwell versus 12.6M per mm² for Maxwell.

Clocks favor the newer card across the board: 1590 MHz base and 2617 MHz boost against 1020 MHz base and 1098 MHz boost, with memory clocked at 1750 MHz (28 Gbps effective) against 900 MHz (1800 Mbps effective).

Memory is perhaps the widest gulf. The Blackwell card carries 96 GB of GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus delivering 1.79 TB/s. The 940M carries 2 GB of DDR3 on a 64-bit bus delivering 14.40 GB/s. The capacity difference alone spans two orders of magnitude.

Shader resources follow the same pattern: 24,064 shading units, 752 TMUs, 192 ROPs, 188 RT cores, and 752 tensor cores for the server card, against 512 shading units, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, and no RT or tensor cores for the 940M. Pixel rate is 502.5 GPixel/s versus 17.57 GPixel/s, and FP16 throughput of 126.0 TFLOPS (at a 1:1 ratio with FP32) exists only on the Blackwell part.

Physical and power characteristics differ just as sharply. The server card is a dual-slot PCIe 5.0 x16 board measuring 267 mm long, 111 mm tall, and 40 mm wide, with a 600 W TDP and one 16-pin power connector. The 940M is an MXM-B (3.0) module with no dimensions recorded, a 75 W TDP, and no power connectors at all. API support differs in tier: DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) for Blackwell versus DirectX 12 (11_0) for Maxwell, with OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4 shared by both.

Architecture Differences

Blackwell 2.0 and Maxwell represent opposite ends of NVIDIA's design history in this database. Maxwell, the architecture behind the 940M's GM107 chip, was engineered for efficiency per watt in mobile form factors, and the 940M embodies that goal: modest clock speeds, a small die, DDR3 memory, and operation entirely within the 75 W slot power envelope of its MXM interface.

Blackwell 2.0, as implemented in the GB202 chip, scales in the opposite direction. The 5 nm process enables nearly ten times the transistor count of the Maxwell part, and the architecture dedicates substantial silicon to specialized units: 752 tensor cores for matrix and AI workloads and 188 RT cores for ray tracing, resource classes that did not exist on Maxwell-era GeForce mobile chips. The FP16 capability running at a 1:1 ratio with FP32 further signals the compute focus of the design.

The memory subsystems tell the architectural story most clearly. The 940M's DDR3 on a narrow 64-bit bus was a cost and power decision suited to laptop integration. The Blackwell card's GDDR7 across a 512-bit interface, delivering 1.79 TB/s, exists to feed its 24,064 shading units and to hold large working sets in its 96 GB frame buffer, a capacity associated with server-scale visualization and compute rather than consumer gaming.

Lineage frames the difference. The 940M sits in the GeForce 900M generation, preceded by the GeForce 800M and succeeded by the GeForce 10 Mobile line, a mobile consumer chain. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server belongs to the Server Blackwell (Bxx) generation, preceded by Server Hopper and to be followed by Server Rubin, a direct datacenter lineage. Benchmark scores from different test suites cannot bridge that gap, and the database records none that try.