GeForce 940M and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

GF116

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

March 2011

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

783 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

601.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

1,170 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

192

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

106 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

25.06

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

3608 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

57.73 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus