GeForce 940M and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940M vs GeForce FX 5500
GeForce 940M
1156
GeForce FX 5500
8
GeForce 940M
GeForce FX 5500
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
N16S-GT-S/B
NV34 B1
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
March 2004
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1176 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1072 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
-
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
28.22
1.080
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
332 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
5.312 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0a
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-