NVIDIA GeForce 840M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 840M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• 2x more pipelines: 384 vs 192
• Around 25% better floating-point performance: 863.2 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 116 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 95% higher memory clock speed: 2002 MHz vs 1026 MHz
• Around 24% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 22.848 vs 18.461
• Around 10% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.237 vs 1.125
• Around 14% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 21.15 vs 18.511
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 95.545 vs 41.941
• Around 56% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 503 vs 322

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

• Around 75% higher core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1029 MHz
• Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 28.8 billion / sec vs 17.98 GTexel / s
• Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1557 vs 1096
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 382 vs 151
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 354.392 vs 162.594
• Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2488 vs 2085
• Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3351 vs 2736
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3322 vs 3191
• Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2488 vs 2085
• Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3351 vs 2736
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3322 vs 3191

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1096 1557
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	151 382
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5771 5750
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	22.848 18.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	162.594 354.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.237 1.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	21.15 18.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	95.545 41.941
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2085 2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2736 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2085 2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2736 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 3322
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	503 322

Compare specifications (specs)