GeForce 940M and GeForce 8600 GTS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940M vs GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 940M
1156
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce 940M
GeForce 8600 GTS
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N16S-GT-S/B
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
April 2007
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1176 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1072 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
32
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.22
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-