GeForce 940M and GeForce GT 540M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940M vs GeForce GT 540M
GeForce 940M
1156
GeForce GT 540M
493
GeForce 940M
GeForce GT 540M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N16S-GT-S/B
N12P-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
January 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
MXM-A (3.0)
Boost clock speed
1176 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1072 MHz
672 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
258.05 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.22
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 API
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
+