GeForce 940M and GeForce GTX 460M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940M vs GeForce GTX 460M
GeForce 940M
1156
GeForce GTX 460M
1283
GeForce 940M
GeForce GTX 460M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N16S-GT-S/B
N11E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
September 2010
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1176 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1072 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
903.2 gflops
518.4 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
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.22
16.1 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
60.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 API with Feature Level 12.1
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-