GeForce 940M and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

GP108

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

March 2018

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

1379 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

1152 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

1,059 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

20 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

33.10

Memory type

DDR3

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

2100 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

16.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2.131

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus