GeForce 940M and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

GM206

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

November 2015

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

1201 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

924 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

2,460 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

2,940 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

76.86

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

7012 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

112.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

5.2

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.1.126

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus