GeForce 840M and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB - video card comparison
GeForce 840M
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N15S-GT
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
May 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
1341 - 1480 MHz
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
1063 - 1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
863.2 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
-
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
60 - 70 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.98
118.4
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6.144 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-
VR Ready
-
+