NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940M and NVIDIA GeForce 840M 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 940M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• Around 4% higher core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 1029 MHz
• Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 1124 MHz
• Around 57% higher texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 17.98 GTexel / s
• Around 5% better floating-point performance: 903.2 gflops vs 863.2 gflops
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1127 vs 1096
• Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 154 vs 151
• Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5982 vs 5771
• Around 14% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 25.98 vs 22.848
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 168.449 vs 162.594
• Around 6% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.307 vs 1.237
• Around 3% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 21.837 vs 21.15
• Around 6% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 101.399 vs 95.545
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2132 vs 2085
• Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3065 vs 2736
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3191
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2132 vs 2085
• Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3065 vs 2736
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3191
• Around 1% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 506 vs 503

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2002 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 840M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1127 1096
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	154 151
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5982 5771
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	25.98 22.848
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	168.449 162.594
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.307 1.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	21.837 21.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	101.399 95.545
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2132 2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3065 2736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2132 2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3065 2736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3191
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	506 503

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