GeForce 940MX and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 - video card comparison

GeForce 940MX

GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

N16S-GTR-B/S

GF116

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2016

March 2011

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1242 MHz

Core clock speed

1122 MHz

783 MHz

Floating-point performance

762.6 gflops

601.3 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)

23 Watt

106 Watt

Texture fill rate

23.83

25.06

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

3608 MHz

Memory bandwidth

40.1 GB/s

57.73 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.1

N/A

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus