NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940MX and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 3 month(s) later
4.1x more core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 235 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
12.5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 400 MHz
168.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1516 vs 9
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 172 vs 166

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 June 2016 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	954 MHz vs 235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1516 vs 9
PassMark - G2D Mark	172 vs 166

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

39.4x more texture fill rate: 940 MTexel / s vs 23.83 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	940 MTexel / s vs 23.83 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1516

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

172

166

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	1516	9
PassMark - G2D Mark	172	166
Geekbench - OpenCL	6325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.91
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	312.94
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	27.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	103.937
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3587
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3587
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	585

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 940MX	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rankine
Code name	GM108	NV31 A1
Launch date	28 June 2016	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1071	1070
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	993 MHz
Core clock speed	954 MHz	235 MHz
Floating-point performance	762.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	23.83 GTexel / s	940 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus