GeForce 940M and PlayStation 4 GPU - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

PlayStation 4 GPU

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

Liverpool

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

November 2013

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

800 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

1,843 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

1152

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

57.60

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

5500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

176.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

11.1*

CUDA

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.1

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus