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 480
CORE STATE
GF100
VRAM
1536 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
940M
GTX 480
Core Specs
Shading Units
512
480
-6.3%
Shaders
512
480
-6.3%
TMUs
32
60
+87.5%
ROPs
16
48
+200.0%
SM Count
—
15
Clocks
Base Clock
1020 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1098 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
701 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1401 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
924 MHz
3.7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
1536 MB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
1,536
-25.0%
Memory Type
DDR3
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
14.40 GB/s
177.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
17.57 GPixel/s
21.03 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
35.14 GTexel/s
42.06 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,124.4 GFLOPS
1,345.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
35.14 GFLOPS (1:32)
168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)
Power
TDP
75 W
250 W
TDP (W)
75
250
+233.3%
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Maxwell
Fermi
GPU Name
GM107
GF100
Generation
GeForce 900M
GeForce 400
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
1,870 million
3,100 million
Die Size
148 mm²
529 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.6M / mm²
5.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
—
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
CUDA
5.0
2.0
Shader Model
6.7 (5.1)
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
499 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 800M
GeForce 200
Successor
GeForce 10 Mobile
GeForce 500