NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 and NVIDIA GeForce 840M 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 GTX 970

• Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
• Around 2% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 1029 MHz
• Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 1124 MHz
• 6.1x more texture fill rate: 109 billion / sec vs 17.98 GTexel / s
• 4.3x more pipelines: 1664 vs 384
• 4.5x better floating-point performance: 3,920 gflops vs 863.2 gflops
• 8.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9640 vs 1096
• 5.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 151
• 4.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 28498 vs 5771
• 4.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 105.107 vs 22.848
• 7.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1225.96 vs 162.594
• 7.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 8.737 vs 1.237
• Around 69% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 35.714 vs 21.15
• 5.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 490.688 vs 95.545
• 5.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 11499 vs 2085
• Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3698 vs 2736
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3340 vs 3191
• 5.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 11499 vs 2085
• Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3698 vs 2736
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3340 vs 3191

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

• 4.5x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 148 Watt
• 286x more memory clock speed: 2002 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
• Around 36% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 503 vs 369

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 840M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	9640 1096
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	766 151
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	28498 5771
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	105.107 22.848
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1225.96 162.594
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8.737 1.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	35.714 21.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	490.688 95.545
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11499 2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3698 2736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3340 3191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11499 2085
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3698 2736
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3340 3191
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	369 503

Compare specifications (specs)