NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 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) 11 month(s) later
• Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 810 MHz
• Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 980 MHz
• Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
• Around 20% better floating-point performance: 903.2 gflops vs 752.6 gflops
• Around 36% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 45 Watt
• Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1127 vs 793
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 154 vs 149
• Around 55% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5982 vs 3866
• 2.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 25.98 vs 9.392
• Around 7% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 168.449 vs 157.479
• Around 51% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.307 vs 0.864
• Around 36% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 21.837 vs 16.101
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 101.399 vs 44.77
• Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2132 vs 1589
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3339
• Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2132 vs 1589
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3339
• Around 47% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 506 vs 345

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3235 vs 3065
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3235 vs 3065

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1127 793
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	154 149
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5982 3866
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	25.98 9.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	168.449 157.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.307 0.864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	21.837 16.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	101.399 44.77
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2132 1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3065 3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2132 1589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3065 3235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3339
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	506 345

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