GeForce 940M and GeForce 256 SDR - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

GeForce 256 SDR

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

NV10 A3

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

October 1999

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

120 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

220 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

17 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

-

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

28.22

0.48

Memory type

DDR3

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

32 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

143 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

1.144 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x VGA

DirectX

12 (11_0)

7.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.5

1.2

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

GameWorks

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-

Optimus

+

-