NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M 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 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
  • 3.8x better floating-point performance: 903.2 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1127 vs 497
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 154 vs 142
  • 2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5982 vs 2229
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2132 vs 999
  • Around 31% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3065 vs 2333
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3257
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2132 vs 999
  • Around 31% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3065 vs 2333
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3257
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 1 October 2012
Pipelines 384 vs 96
Floating-point performance 903.2 gflops vs 240.0 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1127 vs 497
PassMark - G2D Mark 154 vs 142
Geekbench - OpenCL 5982 vs 2229
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2132 vs 999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3065 vs 2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 vs 3257
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2132 vs 999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3065 vs 2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 vs 3257

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 33 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1127
497
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
154
142
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
5982
2229
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2132
999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3065
2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3257
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2132
999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3065
2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3257
Name NVIDIA GeForce 940M NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1127 497
PassMark - G2D Mark 154 142
Geekbench - OpenCL 5982 2229
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 25.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 168.449
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 101.399
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2132 999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3065 2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 3257
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2132 999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3065 2333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 3257
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 506

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 940M NVIDIA GeForce GT 625M

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Fermi 2.0
Code name GM108 GF117
Launch date 13 March 2015 1 October 2012
Place in performance rating 1184 1207
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1176 MHz
Core clock speed 1072 MHz
Floating-point performance 903.2 gflops 240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 384 96
Texture fill rate 28.22 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 585 million
CUDA cores 96

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0 PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus
3D Blu-Ray
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11