NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M 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) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 38% higher core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 775 MHz
  • 2.3x more texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
  • 3x better floating-point performance: 903.2 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1127 vs 438
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 154 vs 119
  • 2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5982 vs 2422
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2132 vs 1019
  • Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3065 vs 2843
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3329
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2132 vs 1019
  • Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3065 vs 2843
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3329
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 9 January 2013
Core clock speed 1072 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate 28.22 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 96
Floating-point performance 903.2 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1127 vs 438
PassMark - G2D Mark 154 vs 119
Geekbench - OpenCL 5982 vs 2422
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2132 vs 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3065 vs 2843
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 vs 3329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2132 vs 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3065 vs 2843
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 vs 3329

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

  • 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 710M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1127
438
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
154
119
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
5982
2422
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2132
1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3065
2843
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2132
1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3065
2843
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3357
3329
Name NVIDIA GeForce 940M NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1127 438
PassMark - G2D Mark 154 119
Geekbench - OpenCL 5982 2422
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 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3065 2843
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 3329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2132 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3065 2843
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 3329
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 506

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 940M NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Fermi 2.0
Code name GM108 GF117
Launch date 13 March 2015 9 January 2013
Place in performance rating 1184 1172
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1176 MHz
Core clock speed 1072 MHz 775 MHz
Floating-point performance 903.2 gflops 297.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 384 96
Texture fill rate 28.22 GTexel / s 12.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 585 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 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

Technologies

CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus