NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 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 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• Around 75% higher texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 16.1 billion / sec
• 2x more pipelines: 384 vs 192
• Around 74% better floating-point performance: 903.2 gflops vs 518.4 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 50 Watt
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1536 MB
• Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1250 MHz
• Around 42% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5791 vs 4082
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 25.98 vs 11.121
• Around 18% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.307 vs 1.105
• Around 18% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 21.837 vs 18.548
• 3.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 101.399 vs 32.965
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2132 vs 1699
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3065 vs 2837
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2132 vs 1699
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3065 vs 2837

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

• Around 26% higher core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 1072 MHz
• Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1237 vs 1123
• Around 69% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 258 vs 153
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 391.548 vs 168.449

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1123 1237
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	153 258
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5791 4082
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	25.98 11.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	168.449 391.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.307 1.105
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	21.837 18.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	101.399 32.965
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2132 1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3065 2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2132 1699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3065 2837
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3349

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