GeForce 940MX and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 940MX vs GeForce RTX 3060

GeForce 940MX

1561

GeForce RTX 3060

17598

GeForce 940MX

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N16S-GTR-B/S

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2016

January 2021

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1242 MHz

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

1122 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

762.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

23.83

199.0

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

40.1 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

1.1

1.2

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus