GeForce 840M and GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X - video card comparison
GeForce 840M
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N15S-GT
GP104
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
October 2018
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
1709 MHz
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
1506 MHz
Floating-point performance
863.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
-
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.98
136.7
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
8008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-