GeForce 940M and GeForce 7950 GX2 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940M vs GeForce 7950 GX2

GeForce 940M

1156

GeForce 7950 GX2

207

GeForce 940M

GeForce 7950 GX2

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

G71

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

June 2006

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

500 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

278 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

110 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

12.00

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

38.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.5

2.1

Shader Model

5.1

3.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus