GeForce 940M and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation - video card comparison

GeForce 940M

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

AD104

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

March 2015

March 2023

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

35,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

5120

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

100 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

247.2

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

18 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

432.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.3

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus