GeForce 940M and RTX A500 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940M vs RTX A500

GeForce 940M

1156

RTX A500

6993

GeForce 940M

RTX A500

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N16S-GT-S/B

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

November 2021

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

1072 MHz

Floating-point performance

903.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

28.22

113.3

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

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